Cornel, Samantha Akwei, poet/organizer, assistant to Marvin X, Marvin X
photo Adam Turner
Cornel West supports Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement's 27 City Tour. He called on all cities with populations of North American Africans to invite the BAM 27 City Tour, especially his hometown of Sacramento CA. "If they will bring BAM to Sacramento, I will participate."
The Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary celebration will be at Oakland's Laney College on Saturday, February 7, all day, from 10am thru 8pm. The event is free/donations accepted. For more information: 510-200-4164.
Marvin X: Notes on Cornel West at First Congregational Church, Oakland, a benefit for KPFA, conversation with Davey D
Dr. Cornel West appeared at Oakland's First Congregational Church to promote his book The Radical King, an examination of the unsanitized Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. West described Dr. King as a socialist with an international perspective, especially after his Riverside Church speech against the Viet Nam war, but he noted how Coretta Scott King approached Wes after a speech to tell him the first thing Dr. King told her was that he was a socialist. West noted that King was mentored by a professor at Morehouse who lectured on Marxism. His international perspective was evident when he attended the 1957 celebration of Ghana's independence from British colonialism.
Black preachers were no friends of Dr. King. They were especially against him after the Riverside speech. We recall Dr. King was thrown out of the National Baptist Convention for being a hoodlum and thug. Dr. West labeled Rev. Al Sharpton as one of Pharaoh's magicians, along with Rev. Jesse Jackson. They do not question Pharaoh, but protect him and support him even while he walks around with a kill list, even while he takes out American citizens without charges or trial. Cornel said he supports Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement's 27 City Tour. He called on all cities with populations of North American Africans to invite the BAM 27 City Tour, especially his hometown of Sacramento CA. "If they will bring BAM to Sacramento, I will participate."
The Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary celebration will be at Oakland's Laney College on Saturday, February 7, all day, from 10am thru 8pm. The event is free/donations accepted. For more information: 510-200-4164.