Marvin X Book Tour
Oakland
December 7, 2019
Dr. Cornel West and Marvin X in Conversation,
Geoffery's Inner Circle, BAMBD Oakland CA
January 25, Saturday, 12 Noon
Marvin X Welcomes NCobra Reparations gathering in the BAMBD
Joyce Gordon Gallery
14th and Franklin Streets
Downtown Oakland
Host Jahahara
Dirty South
Durham, North Carolina
January 30-31
Reading at Duke University
Black Muslim Atlantic Symposium
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Tonight, Oakland poet Marvin X broke down into tears as he tried to read his poem on his recently departed friend Nisa Bey during the Black Muslim Atlantic Conference at Duke University, Durham NC.
photo James Rhodes
East Coast, Up South
Marvin X at Philly's Moonstone Poetry Reading, Shakespeare Bookstore
Marvin X and Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon
Kimmika is a dynamic/dramatic poet who studied with the
Mistress of Poetry, Sonia Sanchez
Newark NJ
Friday February 7
4-6PM
Source of knowledge
Book store
876 Broad Street
Marvin X reading/book signing
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SAVE THIS DATE: August 2020
Black Arts Movement Festival, BAMFEST, Black August 2020
Sonia Sanchez and Marvin X have agreed to perform a concert reading with Maestro Michael Morgan and the Oakland Symphony, followed by a possible conversation with Sonia, Marvin X, Angela Davis and Kumasi, Founder of Black August and Griot of the Black Prison Movement. BAMFEST is a production
of the Black Arts Movement Business District CDC, under the direction of Dr. Ayodele Nzinga.
of the Black Arts Movement Business District CDC, under the direction of Dr. Ayodele Nzinga.
Sonia Sanchez and Marvin X, Philly 2\3\20
photo James Rhodes
Marvin X, Sonia Sanchez and Duke University Professor Ellen McLarney
photo James Rhodes
Professor McLarney is writing a book on Black Muslim inspired writers,
including Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Yusef Rahman,
Yusef Iman, et al. Dr. McLarney produced the recent Duke University on
Black Muslim Atlantic that brought together Black Muslim scholars from
around the USA.
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James Rhodes, recent Dartmouth graduate and grandson of Marvin X, assisted his grandfather's book tour and was blessed to meet Dr. Sonia Sanchez at her home in Philly.
