A live dog is better than a dead lion!--Holy Bible
Marvin X is now available for readings/speaking coast to coast.
In 2015 Marvin X rocked America coast to coast!
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Marvin X accepts life-time achievement award from PEN Oakland. Right: Al Young, MC, poet, novelist, California Poet Laureate emeritus
photo Wanda Sabir
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Ishmael Reed and Marvin X. Ishmael Reed says, "Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland." Marvin X appears in two of the latest books by Ishamel Reed: The Complete Muhammad Ali and Black Hollywood unChained
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Marvin X
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send letter of invitation to
Marvin X
jmarvinx@yahoo.com
call
510-200-4164
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Poet/playwright Marvin X with fellow poet/playwrights Opal Palmer Adisa and Ishmael Reed
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Marvin X, MCs Jack Foley and Al Young
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Marvin X at the mike. The mike is often snatched from him by the PC Culture Police, not this time.
photo Wanda Sabir
Marvin X is now available for readings/speaking engagements coast to coast. Send letter of invitation to jmarvinx@yahoo.com. Call 510-200 4164.
"If you want motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to workshops and seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland, and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland."--Ishmael Reed
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Fans of Marvin X
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BAM Poets Choir and Arkestra at University of California, Merced, 2014
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The Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra
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Marvin and BAM comrade Danny Glover
photo Kenny Johnson
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Marvin X in "Nigguh Heaven" (In the presence of intelligent/beautiful revolutionary Black women)
BAM 50th Anniversary Celebration, Laney College, Oakland, 2015
Left to Right: Black Panther Party Chairwoman Elaine Brown, BAM dancer/choreographer Halifu Osumare, BAM/BPP member Judy Juanita, writer Portia Anderson, BAM Bay Area multitalented Kujichagulia, BAM Baby Aries Jordan
photo Kenny Johnson
To invite Marvin X to your venue,"If you want motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to workshops and seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland, and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland."--Ishmael Reed
At his Academy of da Corner, Marvin X mentors many Hip Hop youth who question him about their addiction to the plethora of isms and schisms, especially the Youtube "scholars". They ask him who is God? He answers God is you, look in the mirror! You are in God/God is in you! He refers them to his mentors Elijah Muhammad and His Holiness Guru Bawa. If you ain't ready for the reality of God, don't ask me shit!
photo Kenny Johnson
BAM 50th Anniversary Celebration, Laney College, Oakland, 2015
Left to Right: Black Panther Party Chairwoman Elaine Brown, BAM dancer/choreographer Halifu Osumare, BAM/BPP member Judy Juanita, writer Portia Anderson, BAM Bay Area multitalented Kujichagulia, BAM Baby Aries Jordan
photo Kenny Johnson
send letter of invitation to
Marvin X
jmarvinx@yahoo.com
call
510-200-4164
