Press Release: Marvin X in Concert

 IT MUST BE GOD/ALLAH, A POEM FOR AB



OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAllah
It must be God/Allah
It must be God/Allah
can't be the devil/shaitan
Hurricane Harvey Irene Jose
must be God/Allah
can't be the devil
devil ain't that strong
must be God Allah
Mexico rocked
Texas floatin like Ivory soap
beggin fa money
Texans didn't vote for Hurricane Sandy money
beggin fa billions for Texas
must be God/Allah
He humble the proud
arrogant boastful
can't be the devil
can't be George Soros
can't be Hillary and funky Bill
can't be Obama drama
can't be statues of Gen. Lee
can't be confederate flag
got Florida people running for their lives
can't be stand your ground Florida
STAND YO ASS IN THE GROUND NOW FLORIDA
can't be Trayvon Martin revenge
can't be the kkk nazis white supremacist
is it black kkk black nazis
democratic party sycophants
care more about party than black people
they beyond black blacks
THEY bbb
YES siree
Must be God/Allah
cleaning his house
draining the swamp
removing manure
can't be the devil/shaitan
must be God/Allah
can't be North Korea
not Kim
North Korea ain't mad at nigguhs
say he won't nuke nigguhs
if they pull they pants up
promise he won't nuke nigguhs
JUST PULL THEY PANTS UP
can't be Kim
must be God/Allah
coming fa the devil/shaitan
coming fa the devil's behind
you wit da devil
go down wit da devil
oooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaagod/allah/
must be God/Allah
can't be the devil
can't be trump
can't be putin
can't be saudi arabia israel egypt persian gulf
can't be iran bringing home the 12 imam
can't be jesus anybody but Jesus
what he say bout earthquakes in diverse places
what he say bout wars and rumors of wars
what JC say bout famine drought
parents against children
children against parents
WIVES AGAINST HUSBANDS
HUSBANDS AGAINST WIVES
can't be Jesus
jesus saves
jesus wouldn't hurt nobody
make nobody homeless
jobless
drugged loaded
jesus wouldn't poison food air water
rob the poor kill the innocent
imprison the righteous
who do dat
the devil shaitan
God don't like ugly
God say joy joy joy to the world
happiness after difficulty
don't worry be happy
Must be God/Allah say
raise yo hands high
storm is over now
storm is over now
storm is over now.
Alhamdulilah
Alhamdulilah
Alhamdulilah..........
--Marvin X/El Muhajir
9/917
Press Release

For Immediate Release

Poet-playwright-educator-activist Marvin X in Concert at the Black Repertory Group Theatre, Saturday, September 30, 7:30 PM.

The Black Repertory Group Theatre is honored to present world renowned writer, poet-playwright Marvin X in Concert on Saturday, September 30, 7:30 PM. The BRGT is located at 3201 Adeline Street, Berkeley. Donation $20.00. For reservations, please call 510-200-4164. Special guests include Blues man Fillmore Slim who just released his autobiography Blues Man Mack; also the multi-talented Phavia Kujuchagulia, singer/writer Rasheedah Mwongozi and Afro-beat singer/musician Piwai.

This event is a benefit for the Movement Newspaper, Voice of the Black Arts Movement. Marvin X is a co-founder along with Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Last Poets, Barbara Ann Teer,
Haki Madhubuti, et al. The Black Arts Movement is the most radical artistic and literary movement in American history. It is known as the sister of the Black Power movement (Larry Neal), although Marvin X calls it the mother since many of the Black Power fighters were indoctrinated in the Black Arts Movement, e.g., Huey P. Newton said, "Marvin X was my teacher! Many of our comrades came through his Black Arts Theatre: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Emory Douglas, Samuel Napier, Judy Juanita, Ellendar Barnes, et al."

Marvin X is the author of thirty books, including plays. His one-act Flowers for the Trashman is a BAM classic, written (and produced by the Drama Department) while he was an undergrad at San Francisco State College/University, 1965, where he obtained his B.A. and M.A. in English/Creative Writing, 1974-75.  He taught at San Francisco State U, Fresno State U, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Mills College, University of Nevada, Reno, Laney and Merritt Colleges.

Most recently, Marvin X co-founded Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District, downtown Oakland, along the 14th Street corridor. The BAMBD was approved by the Oakland City Council on January 19, 2016. On the corner of 14th and Broadway, Marvin X teaches at his Academy of da Corner. Ishmael Reed says, "If you want to learn about motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to seminars and workshops, just go stand at 14th and Broadway and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland!" Bob Holman calls him, "The USA's Rumi, the wisdom of Saadi, the ecstasy of Hafeez!"

Rudolph Lewis says, "Marvin X is a master teacher in many fields of thought; one of America's great story tellers. I'd put him ahead of Mark Twain!"

Fahizah Alim notes, "His writing is orgasmic!"

San Francisco poet laureate emeritus, devorah major exclaims, "His poetry reading put me in  swoon!"

Islamic literature professor Dr. Mohja Kahf proclaims, "The starting point for the genre known as Muslim American literature is Marvin X!"


FYI, Marvin X grew up on 7th and Campbell in West Oakland where his parents operated a florist shop. His first writings appeared in the Children's Section of the Oakland Tribune, Aunt Elsie. Prior to Oakland, his parents published The Fresno Voice, a black newspaper in Fresno, along with their real estate business during the mid-40s and late 50s. Most blacks bought their first home through his parents. His father was a Race Man, no doubt associated with Marcus Garvey. According to Marvin's childhood friend, Paul Cobb, Publisher of the Post News Group, he recalls Garveyite  meetings at his grandfather's house attended by Marvin's father, Owendell Jackmon I.
 









Press Release

For Immediate Release

Poet-playwright-educator-activist Marvin X in Concert at the Black Repertory Group Theatre, Saturday, September 30, 7:30 PM.

The Black Repertory Group Theatre is honored to present world renowned writer, poet-playwright Marvin X in Concert on Saturday, September 30, 7:30 PM. The BRGT is located at 3201 Adeline Street, Berkeley. Donation $20.00. For reservations, please call 510-200-4164. Special guests include Blues man Fillmore Slim who just released his autobiography Blues Man Mack; also the multi-talented Phavia Kujuchagulia, singer/writer Rasheedah Mwongozi and Afro-beat singer/musician Piwai.

This event is a benefit for the Movement Newspaper, Voice of the Black Arts Movement. Marvin X is a co-founder along with Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Last Poets, Barbara Ann Teer,
Haki Madhubuti, et al. The Black Arts Movement is the most radical artistic and literary movement in American history. It is known as the sister of the Black Power movement (Larry Neal), although Marvin X calls it the mother since many of the Black Power fighters were indoctrinated in the Black Arts Movement, e.g., Huey P. Newton said, "Marvin X was my teacher! Many of our comrades came through his Black Arts Theatre: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Emory Douglas, Samuel Napier, Judy Juanita, Ellendar Barnes, et al."

Marvin X is the author of thirty books, including plays. His one-act Flowers for the Trashman is a BAM classic, written (and produced by the Drama Department) while he was an undergrad at San Francisco State College/University, 1965, where he obtained his B.A. and M.A. in English/Creative Writing, 1974-75.  He taught at San Francisco State U, Fresno State U, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Mills College, University of Nevada, Reno, Laney and Merritt Colleges.

Most recently, Marvin X co-founded Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District, downtown Oakland, along the 14th Street corridor. The BAMBD was approved by the Oakland City Council on January 19, 2016. On the corner of 14th and Broadway, Marvin X teaches at his Academy of da Corner. Ishmael Reed says, "If you want to learn about motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to seminars and workshops, just go stand at 14th and Broadway and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland!" Bob Holman calls him, "The USA's Rumi, the wisdom of Saadi, the ecstasy of Hafeez!"

Rudolph Lewis says, "Marvin X is a master teacher in many fields of thought; one of America's great story tellers. I'd put him ahead of Mark Twain!"

Fahizah Alim notes, "His writing is orgasmic!"

San Francisco poet laureate emeritus, devorah major exclaims, "His poetry reading put me in  swoon!"

Islamic literature professor Dr. Mohja Kahf proclaims, "The starting point for the genre known as Muslim American literature is Marvin X!"

BIO of Marvin X








Born May 29, 1944, Fowler, California, nine miles south of Fresno. His parents, Owendell and Marian M. Jackmon, published The Fresno Voice, a black newspaper in Fresno, along with their real estate business during the mid-40s and late 50s.

Marvin recalls living with his grandparents in the West Fresno projects when he heard a young man running through the projects shouting the Korean War is over. Marvin was relieved even in his childhood world of being deaf, dumb and blind.

Due to red-linning, most blacks bought their first home through his parents. His father was a Race Man, no doubt associated with Marcus Garvey, also a member of the NAACP.  Marvin recalls, "
The most often repeated word in my house was NAACP or N double ACP.  Yes, I am blessed to have had conscious parents."

Marvin's West Oakland  childhood friend, Paul Cobb, Publisher of the Post News Group, recalls Garveyite  meetings at his grandfather's house attended by Marvin's father, Owendell Jackmon I.
Thus,  Paul's grandfather, father and Paul were Garveyites, along with others in the West Oakland Black culture and economic district along the Seventh Street corridor.
But as per comprehending the personality known as Marvin X, we must turn to his mother, Marian Murrill Jackmon, born in Fowler, Ca., nine miles south of Fresno in the land of raisins,  where Marvin X was born as well, May 29, 1944. A war baby, he'd just came out his mother's womb when America dropped bombs on Japan. He remembers his uncles coming back from WWII and Korea. He remembers going to the drive-in theater and watching the news reel of Palestinians fleeing across recall Sunmaid? His maternal ancestors were pioneers to the central valley. When his maternal great-grandfather died at 99 in 1941, the Fresno Bee Newspaper published a long obituary on him as a black man respected by blacks and whites. But let us turn to his mother who knew he was her star child out of nine other children. Several of his siblings knew it, but he didn't. His mother was a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, thus there was no medicine cabinet in Marvin's house, especially when his mom became a single mother and met another man with which she had three more children, Gail, Suzy and Tommy, along with the six children she had with Jackmon.

Let us again stress, to understand Marvin X, we must know he was a product of Marian Murrill Jackmon, who was a spiritual woman along with her real estate business that she developed to great success when she returned to Fresno as a single mother of nine children and two grand, a woman who worked seven days per week and never took a vacation except a vacation to be with her children and to search out her lost child, Marvin X, after he got lost and turned out on drugs.

Marvin's concept of truth comes from his Mother's Christian Science, "The truth will set you free. There is no disease except negative thinking. Mind over matter
Marvin X grew up in, and even when he joined the Nation of Islam, his Mother's teachings of know the truth were not far away, along with the due for self economic teachings.