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LET'S DO THE BAM THANG!
 SOS! Calling all Black artistic freedom fighters, groups, activists, students, educators, workers, lovers of Black Art: Please confirm your presence at Oakland City Hall, Room 3, 3:30, Monday,...
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Wish List for Black Arts Movement Cultural and Economic Districts coast to coast
Suggested Elements of the Black Arts Movement Cultural and Economic District for downtown OaklandThe following are some of my thoughts toward the establishment of a comprehensive plan for the BAM...
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White folks funny as a Gerald 2X cartoon in Muhummad Speaks Newspaper
"Of course I'll fight for my country. Soon as I'm the citizen of one."
View ArticleBlues for a child
I lost a child in Americamakes me feel so badbeautiful sonsmartest child ever hadlove all ma childrengreatest any man ever hadlove all my childrengreatest a man ever hadlosing my sonworst thing happen...
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Black Power Salute Mexico City, John Carlos and Tommy Smith
Civil DisobedienceBlack medallists raise fists for Civil Rights Movementby John GettingsTommie Smith (center) and John Carlos raise fists for Black Power in 1968. (Source: AP)It was the most popular...
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Marvin X poem: I AM AMERICAN
MASTER TEACHER MARVIN X IN A POETIC MOMENT WITH OAKLAND MAYOR LIBBY SCHAAF WHO PROCLAIMED THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT AT LANEY COLLEGE CELEBRATION, FEB. 7, 2015photo Ken Johnson I...
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Draft for the Black Arts Movement Founder's Concert and Awards Ceremony, TBA...
COMING SOON, 2016THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENTÂ CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DISTRICTproudly presentsBAM FOUNDER'S CONCERTÂ andLITERARY AWARDS CEREMONYPARAMOUNT THEATREOakland CAPresenting the Amiri Baraka Artistic...
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Africa, China's Second Continent!
Chinaâs Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Howard W. French Reviewed by Nicolas van de Walle  Over one million Chinese citizens have moved to Africa in the...
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Marvin X new poem: I Cannot tell you of love
I cannot tell you of loveWhen you do not seek loveCannot see love roaring in the surfIn the quiet mountainsYou cannot convince meMountains hateBees birds little childrenEven beaten lovers love again...
View ArticlePoem by Fritz Pointer: Heightened Awareness
Heightened AwarenessBy Fritz PointerWhere do bomber pilots worship?Do they genuflect before boarding their bomber planes?Do they sing âOnward Christian Soldiers Marching On To War?â           In a...
View ArticlePoem: Ain't Nothing Changed by Rudolph Lewis
Ainât Nothing Changed                                  --- For Ben Carson                          Ainât nothing changed but you, Brotherâsearchlights, night helicopters, hunting runaways:shock &...
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Meaning of the Red, Black and Green Flag
The Red Black and Green flag is an act of love. Prior to the flag, there was a song called Everybody got a flag except a Coon. Marcus Garvey then presented the Red Black and Green to show the world...
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Black Arts Movement Distrtict tentative Agenda for City of Oakland Plannning...
1. The need for the BAM land trust is top priority. Just as the Eastside Arts Cultural Center is under a land trust, we want a parity of buildings in the BAM District under the land trust. We call upon...
View ArticlePublisher wants to release Marvin X's next book of poetry
At the Pen Oakland Literary Awards Ceremony at the Oakland Main Library today, the publisher of Poetic Matrix Press tentatively agreed to publish Marvin X's next collection of poetry. Marvin's last...
View ArticleIf you only knew how beautiful you are
I wish black people knew how beautiful they areno matter negrocitiesbeautiful peoplestrange fruit cross lynching treecentury after centuryin the sun in the rain paina miraclesilence of centuriesstrange...
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Marvin X and Aries Jordan on The Black Arts Movement District, downtown...
The BAM/City of Oakland planning committee voted to make The Black Arts Movement Disrtrict the official name of the proposed BAM District, a cultural and economic area along the 14th Street corridor,...
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Marvin X's East Coast style biblotherapueutic revolution rocks Oaktown
Master Teacher Marvin X at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland.Marvin X has given out thousands of books freely to the people. Lately, Dr. Nathan and Dr. Julia Hare gave him...
View ArticleKaren Armstrong - Religion and the History of Violence
Karen Armstrong is one of my favorite scholars of theology and spirituality. I love her because she has that eclectic vision so necessary to unravel the conundrums of the present intellectual morass....
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