FillmoreLive! Black History Month events

Feb. 11-April 11 Black Food Extravaganza featuring San Francisco's 60 black owned restaurants and including the 25th annual Black Food Festival in March as well as the Jazz on the Silver Screen Film Festival. There will be six new black-owned restaurants opening during that period on Fillmore St., Mason St., Third Street, Cesar Chavez, Van Ness Avenue. Our grand marshall, Emmit A. Powell, celebrates his first anniversary Feb. 11 of the new Powell's Place, which was featured in the national magazine Restaurants and Institutions with the Latino Youth Jazz Ensemble at 2 p.m. at 1521 Eddy St.
Feb. 12 San Francisco's Black Churches and the Abolition Movement in the 1850s at 8 a.m. at Bethel AME Church 916 Laguna St.
Feb. 13 National African-American Parent Involvement Day encouraging parents and volunteers to visit schools
Feb. 15 Dr. John Hope Franklin reads from his new book Mirror to America at Third Baptist Church, McAllister and Pierce Sts., the oldest black Baptist church in the West, at 7 p.m. Dr. Franklin is the preeminent historian of African-American life and wrote the textbook From Slavery to Freedom.
Feb. 16 Honor roll students reception at Jones Memorial United Methodist Church, Post and Steiner St. at 5:30 p.m. presented by the Alliance of Black School Educators
African-American Chamber of Commerce mixer at World Trade Center at the Ferry Building beginning at 7 p.m.
Feb. 18 Walking tour of Fillmore jazz district beginning at 12 noon followed by talk by noted saxophonist John Handy on Playing with Coltrane. Tour begins at 1290 Fillmore, the St. John African Orthodox Church. Handy's discussion and performance is at Marcus Bookstore, 1712 Fillmore beginning at 1 p.m.
Feb. 24 St. Dominic's Catholic Church, Bush and Steiner, concert featuring the New Liberation Presbyterian Church Choir at 6 p.m.
Feb. 25 Walking tour of Fillmore jazz district beginning at 3:30 p.m. led by Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts, authors of Harlem of the West, followed by booksigning at Marcus Bookstore, 1712 Fillmore, which will be transformed into its former use as Jimbo's Bop City nightclub for an evening of jazz remembrance at 6 p.m.
Feb. 26 Black History Month program at New Liberation Presbyterian Church, 1100 Divisadero St.at 3 p.m.
March 6 Critical Mass Health Conductors training session Bay Area African-American Health Initiative, 5:30 p.m. at the African-American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St.
March 7 Peng Keyu, Chinese consul general to San Francisco and former ambassador to Zambia, on Sino-African relations, past, present and future, at 7 p.m. at Rasselas Jazz Club, 1534 Fillmore St.