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Today, 4pm, Davey D interviews Marvin X on Oakland's Black Arts Movement...
Hard Knock Radio 01.11.16 - 4:00pmMarvin X on Hard Knock Radio – January 11, 2016KPFA 94.1 www.kpfa.orgDavey D (KPFA FM Hardknock Radio) interviews Marvin X on Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business...
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City of Oakland endorses the Black Arts Movement Business District
We are happy to announce that today, January 12, 2016, a committee of Oakland City Council members passed the resolution designating the 14th Street corridor as the Black Arts Movement Business...
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The Black Arts Movement Wish List
Let's do the BAM Thang! City of Oakland approved The Black Arts Movement Business District along the 14th Street corridor, downtown Oakland. We expect to see the BAM flag flying immediately along with...
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It's Nation Time...Again!
It’s Nation Time… AgainSTATE OF THE BLACK WORLD CONFERENCE IVNovember 16-20, 2016, Newark, NJ.Dedicated to the Memory of Amiri BarakaThe First CallIn 2012 the Institute of the Black World 21st Century...
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What about a Marcus Garvey Unity parade and rally to celebrate the BAM...
The Honorable Marcus GarveyWe think North American Africans in Oakland should celebrate the BAM Business District with a Marcus Garvey style parade down 14th from MLK, Jr. Way to Lake Merritt for a...
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Why not invite Marvin X for Black History Month--He's Living Black History!
A live dog is better than a dead lion!--Holy BibleMarvin X is now available for readings/speaking coast to coast.In 2015 Marvin X rocked America coast to coast! Marvin X accepts life-time achievement...
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Oakland Post Newspaper calls Black Artists for Group Photo, Tuesday, January...
Paul Cobb, Publisher of the Oakland Post News Group, and Black Arts Movement co-founder, Marvin X, are calling all Oakland and Bay Area Black artists to gather for a group photo prior to the full City...
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Qatar provides 1,000 new homes for Gazans--maybe Qatar can help Oakland's BAM...
Marvin X has called for a BAM Billion Dollar trust fund for the BAM Business District so it can create cultural facilities, businesses, artist space and housing for North American Africans, especially...
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Marvin X: Part two:My Life in the Global Village--Notes of an artistic...
If my memory is correct, the Black Panthers were at the Black House, San Francisco, when the first issue of the Black Panther Newspaper hit the press. Eldridge Cleaver and I had founded the Black House...
View ArticleDr. Greg Carr of Howard University COAS Freshman Seminar African Burial Grounds
Dr. Greg Carr, everybody's favorite professor at Howard University. No one can attend Howard without taking one of his classes. I've lectured in his class and listened to him lecture. He is the James...
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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on BAM Business District: "Oh, Marvin, I'm so...
Mayor Libby Schaaf issued a proclamation on last year's 50th anniversary of the Black Arts Movement. The celebration was at Laney College. L to R: Mrs. Gay Plair Cobb, Marvin X, Mayor Schaaf, Laney...
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Letter from Oakland City Council President, Lynette McElhaney
Oakland Black Artists support the Black Arts Movement Business District. This pic was taken shortly before the full City Council voted to establish the BAM Business District. 1/19/16photo Adam...
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Black Arts Movement Business District approved by Oakland City Council
On Tuesday, January 19, the full Oakland City Council voted approval of the Black Arts Movement Business District along the 14th Street corridor, downtown Oakland. Lynette McElhaney, President of the...
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Marvin X's Letter to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
Last year's 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Black Arts Movement at Laney College. Left to right: unidentified person, Dr. Nathan Hare, father of Black & Ethnic Studies; Nefertiti Jackmon,...
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