Saturday, October 28, 2017
Coming soon: a video documentary on the life and times of Black Arts Movement Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X/El Muhajir--the last revolutionary of an era, the 60s; the man who never came in from the cold.
"...It is gratifying in an era of the sellout, faint hearted and fallen, to see that Marvin X was one black man who met the white man in the center of the ring and walked with him to the corners of psycho-social inequity, grappling with him through the bowels of the earth, yet remained one black man the white man couldn't get!"
--Dr. Nathan Hare, Introduction to Somethin' Proper, the life and times of a North American African Poet, the autobiography of Marvin X, Black Bird Press, Berkeley, 1998.
BAM Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X. Jackmon/El Muhajir: family, associates and friends, a photo essay on the personality called many names: Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland (Ishmael Reed); the USA's Rumi, Saadi, Hafiz (Bob Holman); a master teacher in many fields of thought; one of America's great story tellers, I'd put him ahead of Mark Twain even (Rudloph Lewis); Marvin X is the most important African American Muslim poets to appear in the US during the Civil Rights era (Julius E. Thompson); the starting point for Muslim American literature is Marvin X (Dr. Mohja Kahf)
