Marvin X At the Black Caucus of California Community Colleges, Fresno City College
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Marvin X Defremery Park (Bobby Hutton Park) Oakland, at the Memorial for Geronimo Ja Jigga
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Elizabeth Catlett Exhibition opens today, 24 January-- 25 February, 2014
ELIZABETH CATLETT EXHIBITION.... today JUNE KELLY GALLERY Address: 166 Mercer St, New York, NY 10012 Phone:(212) 226-1660 Exhibition Dates: 24 January – 25 February 2014 REMEMBERING ELIZABETH CATLETT
Sculpture, Paintings and Prints
A memorial exhibition of the art of the late Elizabeth Catlett; including wood, stone and bronze sculptures for which she is best known, will open at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on January 24.
The exhibition, in collaboration with the Ellen Sragow Gallery, will also show examples of Catlett’s
paintings and prints. It will continue through February 25.
Entitled Remembering Elizabeth Catlett, the exhibition recalls the distinctive vision and sculptural skill and style that Catlett demonstrated throughout her career – from her first prize in sculpture, a limestone Mother and Child, at the 1940 American Negro Exposition in Chicago, to Torso, a spare abstract figure
of a female form in black marble at her 2009 gallery exhibition in New York.
Regardless of medium, Catlett’s work celebrates African-American identity and chronicles the black experience. Most often, it is the beauty of the female form to which she pays homage, in the earlier years endowing it with maternal compassion and tenderness, later unveiling the sensuality of the physical form, giving it a dignity and an independence in posture, her head uplifted and eyes gazing steadily forward.
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Marvin X poem for Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Marvin X poem for Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
I am Othello
loving Desdemona
so in love
Iago will take me out for sure
but for now
Desdemona is my queen
I am the Moor
who came to Spain 711
crossing the Strait of Gibraltar
the Rock of the African Warrior Tarik
who cross into Spain
staying a thousand years
there is no Spain except for the Moors
Granada Seville Toledo
the Moors were there
guiding savages from darkness of the Middle Ages
our scholars enabled the European Renaissance
and yet you never heard of Timbuktu?
Even now you come to my Academy of da Corner
downtown Oakland
you marvel at the tables of consciousness
confess ignorance asking mercy
ignorance is no sin
it is the desire to remain ignorant
this is sinful.
--Marvin X
12/8/13
I am Othello
loving Desdemona
so in love
Iago will take me out for sure
but for now
Desdemona is my queen
I am the Moor
who came to Spain 711
crossing the Strait of Gibraltar
the Rock of the African Warrior Tarik
who cross into Spain
staying a thousand years
there is no Spain except for the Moors
Granada Seville Toledo
the Moors were there
guiding savages from darkness of the Middle Ages
our scholars enabled the European Renaissance
and yet you never heard of Timbuktu?
Even now you come to my Academy of da Corner
downtown Oakland
you marvel at the tables of consciousness
confess ignorance asking mercy
ignorance is no sin
it is the desire to remain ignorant
this is sinful.
--Marvin X
12/8/13
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Murder on Campus at South Carolina State
Fanon taught us about internal violence and external violence. We remember the Orangeburg massacre of the 60s or State violence against students. Now it is students themselves who have internalized self-hatred expressed as violence.
--Marvin X
Orangeburg massacre is the most common name given to an incident on February 8, 1968, in which nine South Carolina Highway Patrol officers in Orangeburg, South Carolina, fired into a crowd of protesters demonstrating against segregation at a bowling alley near the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically black college. Three men were killed and twenty-eight persons were injured; most victims were shot in the back.[1] One of the injured was a pregnant woman. She had a miscarriage a week later due to her beating by the police. It was the first unrest on a university campus resulting in deaths of protesters in the U.S.
The event pre-dated the 1970 Kent State shootings and Jackson State killings, in which the National Guard at Kent State, and police and state highway patrol at Jackson State killed student protesters demonstrating against the United States invasion of Cambodia during theVietnam War.
South Carolina State Student Murdered in Broad Daylight
by David Miller
According to USA Today, a student at South Carolina State University was killed on campus. The authorities are now searching for the four suspects who are believed to have been linked to the murder.
The shooting occurred in the middle of the day outside the Andrew Hugine Suites, one of the dorms on campus. The school is located 40 miles south of Columbia, South Carolina.
The victim was 20 year old Brandon Robinson of Orangeburg. He was a member of the football team.
“We are extraordinarily sad about this,” said university President Thomas Elzey. “He’s a very nice young man … and it hurts. It hurts us all.”
The governor of the state, Nikki Haley, reached out to the school to offer any support that the government could offer. The school was placed on lockdown during the shooting, with no one allowed to enter or leave the campus during the initial investigation.
University Police Chief Mernard Clarkson says that they know who fired the shots and are at this point working to ensure that students are protected.
“The students are safe,” he said during a news conference. “The perimeter of the campus has been secured.”
Claflin University, another campus across the street, was also on lockdown during the ordeal. The school has not released suspects or a motive for the shooting. The state of South Carolina allows its residents to buy rifles and shotguns, but they are not allowed to bring them on private school property.
This is the second shooting on the South Carolina State University campus since 2011. In another shooting, three men met on campus for a drug deal. A student was killed in that incident.
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Photos of Marvin X, et al.
Nisa Ra, Muhammida and Marvin X
Amira, Nefertiti, Muhammida and dad, Marvin X
Marvin X with Fred Hampton, Jr.
Academy of da Corner students, President L. Davis and Reginald James
Academy of da Corner student Aries Jordan
Malcolm X daughters at funeral of Little Malcolm Shabazz
Malcolm X daughters
Malcolm X daughters
Little Malcolm Shabazz
Marvin X and Sun Ra
Marvin X and Fillmore Slim
Marvin X and Fillmore Slim
Marvin X and Rahmana Ali
Marvin X and Quitta at Wellness boot camp, Hunrters Point/Bayview, San Francisco
Marvin X and Quitta in Selma, raisin capital of the world
Quitta
Quitta and Marvin X
Academy of da Corner students Aries Jordan and Toya Carter
Quitta and Marvin X
Quitta and Marvin X
AB, Godfather of BAM
Amira, Nefertiti, Muhammida and dad, Marvin X
Marvin X with Fred Hampton, Jr.
Academy of da Corner students, President L. Davis and Reginald James
Academy of da Corner student Aries Jordan
Malcolm X daughters at funeral of Little Malcolm Shabazz
Malcolm X daughters
Malcolm X daughters
Little Malcolm Shabazz
Marvin X and Sun Ra
Marvin X and Fillmore Slim
Marvin X and Rahmana Ali
Marvin X and Quitta at Wellness boot camp, Hunrters Point/Bayview, San Francisco
Marvin X and Quitta in Selma, raisin capital of the world
Quitta
Quitta and Marvin X
Academy of da Corner students Aries Jordan and Toya Carter
Quitta and Marvin X
Quitta and Marvin X
AB, Godfather of BAM
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Call for a West Coast Anthology of Poems for Amiri Baraka; The coldest winter ever, a poem for AB
Marvin X is calling for all West Coast poets to contribute poems to an anthology dedicated to the memory of Amiri Baraka, published by Black Bird Press, Berkeley, late 2014. Send poems, bio and pic to jmarvinx@yahoo.com. If possible, please include a $100.00 donation toward publication costs. Send checks to Black Bird Press, 1222 Dwight Way, Berkeley CA 94702. Call 510-200-4164 for more information.
The Black Arts Movement Conference at University of California, Merced, Feb 28 thru March 2, 2014, will be a tribute to Amiri Baraka, Ras Baraka will participate.
Bay Area folks are planning a tribute to Amiri Baraka at Eastside Arts Center ASAP. It will also be a fundraiser for his son, Ras Baraka, who is running for Mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
The coldest winter ever
arctic freeze come south
atlanta 9 degrees january
Newark drifts flow to ground
like silent snow
tears fall
all for AB
old poet left us this winter
we are cold
naked in snow
freezing
hearts still
shock of it all
thought he would live forever
what foolish things confound minds
childish improprieties
no one has mastered death
come back to tell us all
tell us all
each time is something new
to understand to wonder why
how long shall we grieve this time
there is no closure ever
time is the master of life and death
where is my friend
are snow flakes his ashes drifting down
from some mystical heaven
letting us know he is still here
will be here forever
winter spring summer fall
snow flakes are all the words he left us
they shall not disappear
words beyond time
beyond seasons
beyond love and hate
they exist for the just and unjust.
unavoidable truths we shall discuss debate
ponder marvel at the genius of this mind
who walked among us and departed
in the coldest winter ever.
--Marvin X
1/25/14
Newark, NJ
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Chickenbones on Amiri Baraka by Editor Rudolph Lewis
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Black Arts West: The Black Arts Movement and its influences, UC Merced, Feb 28-March 2, 2014
Black Arts West Theatre, Fillmore Street, San Francisco, 1966, was organized by Marvin X, Ed Bullins, Ethna Wyatt (Hurriyah Asar), Hillary Broadous, Duncan Barber and Carl Bossiere. Danny Glover also performed at BAW. In 1967, Marvin X, Eldridge Cleaver, Ed Bullins and Ethna Wyatt, organized the Black House political/cultural center on Broderick St., San Francisco. Black House later became headquarters of the Black Panther Party. After his release from prison in 1971, Marvin X organized the Black Educational Theatre in Fresno, CA, then moved BET to San Francisco's Fillmore District on O'farrel between Fillmore and Webster. Sun Ra and his Arkestra worked with Marvin X at this time, also Victor Willis (Village People), choreographer Raymond Sawyer and dancer Charlene Hunter, et al..
Living Black History: Marvin X Speaks in Fresno at the Hinton Center
A Kim McMillan/Marvin X Production
sponsored by the University of California, Merced
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Books by Marvin X
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Register for the Black Arts Movement Conf. at UC Merced
ucmercedbamconference2014
50 Years On: Celebrating The Black Arts Movement
To Register for the Black Arts Movement Conference in Merced, CA, click onto this link: https://intelforms.ucmerced.edu//CleanForm/Black_Arts_Movement
The conference is free for UC Merced students and Merced County youth, and $40 for the general public. To register for the conference, please visit:
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The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Awards & Distinctions
2006 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
A 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleEmerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War, decolonization, and the civil rights movement.
Taking a regional approach, Smethurst examines local expressions of the nascent Black Arts Movement, a movement distinctive in its geographical reach and diversity, while always keeping the frame of the larger movement in view. The Black Arts Movement, he argues, fundamentally changed American attitudes about the relationship between popular culture and "high" art and dramatically transformed the landscape of public funding for the arts.
About the Author
Reviews
"A richly insightful and informative account of the often occluded racial dynamics of early modernism."--Journal of American Studies
"The most comprehensive work published to date on the Black Arts Movement, painstakingly detailing the movement's national thrust. . . . This book is a monumental achievement and will serve as the definitive text on the movement for some time to come."
--Journal of African American History
"Smethurst… has written a tour-de-force that will quickly become the definitive analysis of the sprawling and internally contradictory entity known as the Black Arts movement."
--Against the Current
"Mapping important connections and offering a cornucopia of information, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s is a truly valuable contribution to the study of American letters. Smethurst gets it right! His thorough research and astute analysis overcome two decades of deliberate critical misrepresentation to help us examine a tumultuous era when visionary leadership and nationwide grassroots participation created a dynamic, paradigm-changing cultural renaissance."--Lorenzo Thomas, University of Houston-Downtown
"A momentous and singular contribution to the study of literary ethnic nationalism in particular, and post-World War II cultural history in general. Anyone interested in United States culture and politics in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s will be drawn to The Black Arts Movement as a chronicle, survey, and fabulous reference."--Alan Wald, University of Michigan
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Marvin X in Harlem for private reception
On the eve of NYU's tribute to poets Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka, Marvin X will be honored at a private reception, hosted by poet/activist Rashidah Ismaili Sat., Feb 1, 2014. With Walter Mosley, Sister Rashidah will moderate the NYU conversation and reading by nationally and internationally known poets Mrs. Amina Baraka, Sandra Esteves, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Arthur Pfister, Felipe Luciano, Haki Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, Rene McClean, Askia Toure, Quincy Troop, Ted Wilson and Marvin X.
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Black Arts Movement East St. Louis--Eugene Redman
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Marvin X At the Black Caucus of California Community Colleges, Fresno City College; Upcoming Venues
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Have you heard a woman moan late into the night cause her man is gone?
Have you heard
a woman moan
late into the night
cause her man is gone?
Have you heard
a woman wail
just before dawn
cause her man is gone
Have you heard her cry
Oh, Jesus Jesus Jesus
before noon time
cause her man is gone
"He wears hard gray pants
stripes are really yellow
He wears hard gray pants
stripes are really yellow
but when he starts to love me
he's so fine and mellow."
Have you heard a woman cry
cause her man is gone.
She wanted to slap him
one more time
but her man is gone
wanted to tell him
one more time
what's on her mind
but her man is gone
wanted to dig up his bones
to kiss him one more time
but her man is gone.
--Marvin X
1/27/14
Newark, NJ
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Billie Holiday : Fine and mellow (1957)
Billie Holiday – Fine & Mellow Lyrics
Billie holiday
My man don't love me
Treats me oh so mean
My man he don't love me
Treats me awfully
Hes the, lowest man
That Ive ever see
He wears high trimmed pan
Stripes are really yellow
He wears high trimmed pan
Stripes are really yellow
But when he starts in to love me
Hes so fine and mellow
Love will make you drink and gamble
Make you stay out all night long repeat
Love will make you drink and gamble
Make you stay out all night long repeat
Love will make you do things
That you know is wrong
But if you treat me right baby
Ill stay home everyday
But if you treat me right baby
Ill stay home everyday
But you're so mean to me baby
I know you're gonna drive me away
Love is just like the faucet
It turns off and on
Love is just like the faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think it's on baby
It has turned off and gone
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Third World Press Tribute to AB
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Split this Rock Poetry Festival
LATEST NEWS
2014 Festival Registration Now Open!
Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2014 invites poets, writers, activists, and dreamers to Washington, DC for four days of poetry, community building, and creative transformation. Featuring readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, parties, and activism, the festival offers opportunities to speak out for justice, build connection and community, and celebrate the many ways poetry can act as an agent for social change.
Registration ends on Thursday, March 20, 2014.
Download this year's schedule in PDF format:
*Schedule is Subject to Change - Last updated 1/8/14*
Note: Online registration is preferred but if you have trouble accessing the form, click here for a hard copy. For assistance, contact Camisha Jones at camisha@splitthisrock.org or 202-787-5210.
Eliza Griswold Wins Inaugural Freedom Plow Award for
Poetry & Activism
Split This Rock & The CrossCurrents Foundation present the inaugural Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism to:
Eliza Griswold
for her work collecting & introducing the folk poems
of Afghan women to America
for her work collecting & introducing the folk poems
of Afghan women to America
Congratulations, Eliza!
(Eliza Griswold photo by: Antonin Kratochvil)
Announcing the 2014 Festival Featured Poets!
Split This Rock is pleased to announce the 16 poets who will feature at the fourth national biennial Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness in Washington, DC, March 27-30, 2014. Among the most significant and artistically vibrant writing and performing today, they also exhibit exemplary public citizenship as activists, teachers, and supporters of marginalized voices. The poets to be featured are Sheila Black, Franny Choi, Eduardo C. Corral, Gayle Danley, Natalie Diaz, Joy Harjo, Maria Melendez Kelson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dunya Mikhail, Shailja Patel, Wang Ping, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Myra Sklarew, Danez Smith, and Anne Waldman. They represent the great diversity of poets writing and performing in the United States today.
Please Support Split This Rock
Split This Rock depends on a strong financial foundation. Your tax-deductible contribution supports grassroots outreach, communications, and planning for the biennial festival and other programs — and helps us create a stable organization you can count on to serve your interests as a socially engaged poet. Gifts of any size are deeply appreciated. We hope you'll consider giving $50, $100, or more—or adding a recurring donation. Donate online or mail contributions to: Split This Rock, 1112 16th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036. We thank you.
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Call for Submissions for a Black Arts West Anthology of Poems for Amiri Baraka, Edited by Marvin X
COMMENT
Marvin, with the passing of our beloved Amiri Baraka, flooding tears started coming into our work. However, just as The Creator & Ancestors would have it, Amiri has left us all with a song to carry along. As such, I saw your Call To Action for Poets to submit poetry in honor of him.
Seeing that you are asking for the donation of $100 from Poets to help with the publication costs, & knowing that this might be a hardship for some (me included), may I suggest that you consider putting together an Amiri Baraka Poetry Festival @ different locations here on the West Coast to be used as a fundraiser for the book publication project?
I see the emerging of new works resulting from this effort: namely, a national and international tour of a lineup of Poets & Musicians, live recordings for sale to the general public, & appearances of those who participate in the tour working as much as they want to revitalize the Black Arts Movement & keep it forever more front & center in the hearts.
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