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Are Oakland Black Artists Brain Dead?
For the last few months, I've been working on the Black Arts Movement Business District, but I have yet to hear from those Black artists who claim they are the new generation of artistic freedom...
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Marvin X poem for the Living Dead
The Living DeadI look into my people's eyessee the hollowness withinI wonder where their spirit wentthe hope of yesterdaythe zombie stareshe walks awaywhy have we come to thiswhy is that stare so far...
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Are you ready for the Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience? BAM! BAM!
Marvin X at University of Chicago Conference for Black Arts Movement Master Musician Sun Ra's 101st Earthday Marvin X and Master Musician Sun Ra at Marvin's Black Educational Theatre, San Francisco, CA...
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Members of the BAMBD planning committee and media team
Members of the Black Arts Movement Business District planning committee and media team.Left to right: Amir C. Clark, Aries Jordan and son Legend, Robert Arnold, Marvin X, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Eric...
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Black History and the Emancipation of the Black Arts Movement Business District
We are joyful the Oakland City Council has declared the Black Arts Movement Business District along the 14th Street corridor, but just as African people were freed from the American Slave System in...
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When we were Negroes
photo Harrison Chastang When we were Negroeslife was beautifulin the hoodwe was family thenwe all was kinlooked out for each otherloved yo brother sistawhen we were Negroeshad hotels restaurantsnight...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X: My life in the global village--notes of an artistic freedom fighter: Part One
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Oakland Post Newspaper: Leaders Strive to Make Black Arts Business District a...
Leaders Strive to Make Black Arts Business District a Reality Members of the Black Arts Movement Business District planning committee and media team.Left to right: Amir C. Clark, Aries Jordan and son...
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BAMBD planner Marvin X meets Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf at opening of...
Black Arts Movement Business District planner and BAM co-founder Marvin X and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf at the opening of NFL player Marshawn Lynch's Beast Mode store in the Old Oakland...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X poem for the Living Dead
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Black History: Marvin X's Great Grandfather, 99, died in Madera, CA, 1941
Former Negro Slave Dies on Madera Ranch Fresno Bee, Tuesday, December 16, 1941 Ephraim Murrill, 99, who lived the first twenty years of his life as a Negro slave in North Carolina, died yesterday in...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Film Screening: Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution
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BBC's "Islamic History of Europe" and "Science and Islam"
BBC's "Islamic History of Europe" and "Science and Islam"by Heather GrayIn addition to the excellent documentary "When the Moors (Muslims) Ruled in Europe" I recently shared (see note below from...
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BAMBD supports rally for Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
Thursday 11:30 AM - 1:30 PMThe Malonga Casquelourd Center for The Arts1428 Alice St, Oakland, California 94612In solidarity with artists from the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Community...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X- "Black History is World History" (poem written in the 80's)@Fr...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X- "Black History is World History" (poem written in the 80's)@Fr...
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BAMBD calls for volunteers
Dear Community:If you have time to volunteer with the Black Arts Movement Business District, please connect with BAMBD organizer Marvin X: 510-200-4164; email: jmarvinx@yahoo.com. If you need more...
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