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Through the “B.A.B.E. Stop the Violence Campaign”, we areraising funds to assist various Bay Area Non-profit organizations who specialize in helping women and children (victims) of domestic violence and abuse. Statistics have proven that 1 in every 4 women will experience some kind of physical assault in her lifetime. It is important to bring this travesty out of the shadows and into the light. Withyour assistance, we can help those directly affected; their families and even theircommunities get the support they need.
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Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra, featuring David Murray and Earle Davis, Malcolm X Jazz Festival, 2014, Oakland
photo Adam Turner
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Marvin X is the author of 30 books, including poetry, essays, autobiography, memoir. He received his A.A., Sociology, Merritt College, 1964; B.A., M.A., English, San Francisco State University, 1974-75. He has taught at Fresno State University, University of California, Berkeley and San Diego, San Francisco State University, Mills College, University of Nevada, Reno, Laney College, Merritt College. He received writing fellowships from Columbia University (via Harlem Cultural Council) and the National Endowment for the Arts; planning grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, via the Nevada Cultural Council. His archives were acquired by the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Most recently, Marvin helped the City of Oakland create the Black Arts Movement Business District along the 14th Street corridor, downtown.
