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Coming soon from Black Bird Press: Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X 6/1/18

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Final Draft Table of Contents, Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X
6/1/18


Marvin X speaking at Laney College, Oakland, 2015
photo Alicia Mason
Cover design Adam Turner

                Marvin X speaking/reading at University of Chicago Sun Ra Conference, 2015
         (See Youtube video of Sun Ra Symposium on Afro-futurism at University of Chicago) 
                                                                 photo Burrell Sunrise

Chapter One  Transcendence
Bar B Q Becky and Black Revolution at Oakland’s Lake Merritt
Is President Donald Trump a Damn Fool or Triple Damn Fool?
Of Conundrums and Quagmires
Dear Parents
Dear White Folks
Love Letter to Gay/Lesbian Youth
Racism in America: the Grand Denial
Imagine a Black  Nation!
Black nationalism, flower children and the summer of love
Transcend the low information vibration:
Talk at San Francisco State University
The revolutionary who never came in from the cold: Talk with University Of California, Merced  Students
Revolution against fear
Romanticism/Idealism
Left/Right Paradigm
Every day is a holy day
Why are North American Africans Reactionary
US Violence--level the playing field--everybody pack!
Children and the national security of the united states
Sectarianism
Whiteness and Communal suicide
How to stop violence in the Pan African hood; reply by Rudolph Lewis
The Black Woman is God: from Sarah to Serena
Last Rites of Muhammad Ali
Chapter Two Obama Drama
Pull yo pants up fada prez
Excuse me, Mr. Prez
Fictional interview with Prez Obama
Fictional Prez Obama speech to Muslims
On Prez Obama’s fake speech to Muslims
Fictional Prez Obama’s speech on Afghanistan







Chapter Three Reviews
Black Arts Movement to Hip Hop: A Black Dialogue: Eric Arnold, Rene Guzman, Kim McMillan, Dr. J. Vern Cromartie, Marvin X; Respect Hip Hop Exhibit and The Education of Jahmeel--photo essay by Adam Turner
Marvin X reviews Marvin X in Concert; photo essay by Adam Turner
Sisyphus Syndrome, a Jazz Opera by Amiri Baraka
Black Panther film pre-review
Black Panther, an Afro-futurist film in the Myth-Science tradition of Sun Ra
Addendum to Black Panther review: A psycholinguistic deconstruction of the Arabic word Nisa or Woman
Django
Sun Ra Arkestra at SF Jazz Center; photo essay by Adam Turner
Maestro Michael Morgan’s Oakland  Symphony Notes on Vietnam Concert
Mama at Twilight, Death by Love, a play by Ayodele Nzinga
Film Fences, based on the August Wilson drama; reply by Dr. Abdul Alkalimat
Maestro Michael Morgan’s Oakland Symphony Black Panther Concert
Lifer, the Glen Bailey Story, a play by Ayodele Nzinga
Black Odyssey, a play by Marcus Gardley
Chapter Four
The Black Arts Movement (BAM)
Film script: Marvin X Driving Miss Libby
BAM 50th Anniversary Celebration at Oakland’s Laney College
BAM Wish List
Letter of invitation to join BAM 27 City Tour
Abstract for the BAM 27 City Tour
BAM Speakers Bureau
Straight Outta Oakland
BAM Baby Mayor Ras Baraka and the Newark, New Jersey, Police Model of Symbiosis

Chapter Five
Black Arts Movement Business District (BAMBD)
Oakland City Council approves BAMBD, January 19, 2016
Symbiosis of Poets and Politicians
Black Bourgeoisie Art and Opportunism
Culture Pimps and Ho’s in the BAMBD
Economics in the BAMBD
BAMBD Billion Dollar Trust Fund
How the BAMBD Billion Trust Fund will be allocated
BAMBD Meets Carmel Developers
Letter to Carmel Developers
Afrocentric Design of the BAMBD, A Talk with Architect Fred Smith
Toward Non-violence in the BAMBD
Confidential Notes that ain’t confidential; reply by Oakland City Council President Lynette McElhaney
Letter of Apology to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her reply
Call for United Front at Oakland City Hall Black History Celebration





Chapter Six
The Cross and Lynching Tree: Assassination of Editor Chauncey Bailey
Who killed Chauncey Bailey?
Between the Devil and Deep blue sea
A Shakespearean Tragedy
OPD Gang
Chauncey and Malcolm X
Fake News Chauncey Bailey Project
Chauncey’s last story

Final thoughts: Endgame

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