Black Bird Press News & Review: Abstract for the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour of the BAM Poet's Choir and Arkestra

 Sun Ra, BAM philosopher, poet, arranger, band leader of the Myth-Science Arkestra

Worked with Marvin X at his Black Educational Theatre, San Francisco, 1972

 Nikki Giovanni, a BAM worker

Ed Bullins, playwright, cofounder with Marvin X of Black Arts West Theatre, San Francisco, 1966, the Black House, 1967, with Marvin and Eldridge Cleaver. Ed invited Marvin X to work with him at the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem NY, 1968. Marvin was associate editor of Black Theatre Magazine, a publication of the New Lafayette Theatre.

 Barbara Ann Teer, founder of the National Black Theatre, Harlem NY

 Woody King, BAM producer