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WHY NO BLACK PERSON SHOULD CELEBRATE NEW YEAR'S DAY
CHAPTER 3: THE SLAVES’ NEW YEAR'S DAY. CHAPTER 3: THE SLAVES’ NEW YEAR'S DAY.DR. Flint owned a fine residence in town, several farms, and about fifty slaves, besides hiring a number by the year....
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Black Arts Movement District Community Meeting, Sunday, Jan. 3, 3pm, Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin Sts, Oakland
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BAM Meeting tentative agenda for Joyce Gordon Gallery, Sunday, Jan 3, 3pm
Tentative Agenda for community meeting, Sunday, Jan 3, 3pm at Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and FranklinWe will only have time to deal with priority items on this list. Come with ideas. Think for the next...
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Marvin X: "I walk in the shoes of Paul Robeson, the Original Artistic Freedom...
Paul Robeson, the Artist as Activist and Social ThinkerBy John Henrik ClarkePaul Robeson was indeed more than an artist, activist and freedom fighter. The dimensions of his talent made him our...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Mythology of Pussy and Dick
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Marvin X, a photo essay by Wanda Sabir
Marvin X accepts life-time achievement award from PEN Oakland. Left: MC, poet, novelist,California Poet Laureate emeritus Al Youngphoto Wanda Sabir, journalist/professor College of Alameda Marvin X...
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It's 2016! Let's do the BAM Thang! Community Meeting, Sun, Jan. 3, 3pm, Joyce...
2016, 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland, California, the city of resistance12/23/15Dear artists, vendors, educators, businesspersons:We are requesting your attendance at a...
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From the Black Bird Press archives: Artistic Freedom Fighter Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte Ain’t Nothin’ to F&%k With (Just Ask Colin Powell)By Davey DLong time entertainer/activist/ freedom fighter Harry Belafonte came to Oakland the other weekfor an event he puts on...
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Marvin X on Nikki Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
Nikkie talked about Nikki/Rosathe life she livedbut my life wasn't bad eitherjoy happinessworld of my ownno white people in my worldteachers blackpreachersloan sharksMr. Freeman at the Lincoln...
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Marvin X replies to Oakland City Council President, Lynette McElhaney
Please attend the Community Meeting on the Black Arts Movement Cultural and Business DistrictSunday, January 3, 3PM, Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin, downtown Oakland. We meet with Oakland City...
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Playwright August Wilson and Oakland's Black Arts Movement District
RADIO GOLF'By August Wilson, presented by Lower Bottom PlayazThrough: Jan. 3Where: The Flight Deck, 1540 Broadway, OaklandRunning time: 2 hours, 45 minutes, one intermissionTickets: $20-$70;...
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Israel is ISIS (US is ISIS, Saudi Arabia is ISIS, et al.)
ISRAELI COLONEL AMONG ISIS FORCES IN IRAQ by Jeffrey Phillips | Dec 1, 2015 | False Flag Terrorism, Middle East Conflict / War on Terror, NewWorld Order/Globalization, Obama, World News, Headline...
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Do the BAM Thang!
Front row: President of Oakland City Council, Lynette McElhaney, Marvin X, Duane Deterville.In background, other members of the District planning committee. Far right: Elder Paul Cobb.photo Brigitte...
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Save the besieged town of Madaya, Syria
Syrian poet/novelist Dr. Mohja Kahf and Marvin XDear friends,In the besieged town of Madaya, starving children are eating tree leaves, cats and insects. The...
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Black Arts Movement poet Sonia Sanchez at National Conference of Black Studies
Promoting Academic Excellence and Social ResponsibilityNCBS ANNOUNCES CONFERENCE EVENTS FEATURING SONIA SANCHEZOur sincere apologies. In our earlier email, we erroneously misspelled Professor Sonia...
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