Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X Classic--How to Recover from the...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X Classic--How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy
View ArticleDON'T MAKE MY SON LOOK LIKE THIS
MAYOR RAS BARAKA, NEWARK, NEW JERSEYDON'T MAKE MY CHILD LOOK LIKE THISBUT IF HE MUSTLOOK LIKE THISCHOSEN SON OF NEWARKTRAINED FOR THE MISSIONNO FEAR MISSIONFATHER NO FEARMOTHER NO FEARBROTHERS NO...
View ArticleMarvin X Exiled in Mexico, Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra in Cuba
Brother Dr. Cornel West and Black Arts Movement co-founder Marvin X, poet, playwright, essayist organizer, planner: Oakland Black Arts Movement Business District. Dr. West is down with Marvin X to...
View ArticleMarvin X message to Donald Trump, Man to Man, "Shut the fuck up about women!"
Even before and certainly after a man deposits his seed in the womb of a woman, he has no rights over the control of her womb and the fruit thereof. Male politicians need to stay out of all issues...
View ArticleStraight Outta Oakland: the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour
Now that the Oakland City Council has approved the Black Arts Movement Business District, the time has come for the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra to hit the road and complete the 27 City...
View ArticleCelebrate Black Classical Music, aka Jazz, April 4, 2016, arts.gov
Dear Fam/Friends, Greetings! In case you cannot make it to the event in DC tom'r... Watch live on arts.gov starting at 8pm ET. (which should be 5pm PT) National Endowment for the ArtsPlease join us at...
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http://wunc.org/post/word-warrior-richard-durham#stream/0 … Africans writer who fought capitalism Word Warrior: Richard Durham 4:54 PM - 7 Mar 2016 Listen Live WUNC All Things Considered...
View ArticleStraight Outta Oakland: the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour
Straight Outta OaklandThe Black Arts Movement 27 City TourNow that the Oakland City Council has approved the Black Arts Movement Business District, the time has come for the Black Arts Movement Poets...
View ArticleUpdate: Straight Outta Oakland, BAM 27 City Tour, invited to perform at...
photo collage Adam TurnerStraight Outta Oakland, the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour, has been invited to perform at Oakland's Flight Deck Theatre on Broadway, downtown Oakland. Executive Director...
View ArticleLOVE LIFE, Oakland's new City Motto
‘Love Life’ Approved As Oakland’s New City MottoApril 6, 2016 11:30 AM OAKLAND (KCBS) – The Oakland City Council voted 5 to 3 Tuesday to adopt a new city motto that they hope will better reflect what...
View ArticleMalonga Mural fight settled?
In wake of mural fight, Oakland developer agrees to hundreds of thousands of dollars in concessionsApr 6, 2016, 2:40pm PDTUpdatedApr 6, 2016Roland Li San Francisco Business TimesThe developer of an...
View ArticleMadam Mayor Libby Schaaf, Please give Straight Outta Oakland, the BAM 27 City...
Marvin X and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf(FYI, that's spilled coffee on MX's shirt, aka Messy Marv)Mayor Schaaf said she will use her power as Mayor to support the BAM 27 City Tour by contacting mayors...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Photo essay by Afrah: Marvin X ends Chicago...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Photo essay by Afrah: Marvin X ends University of Chicago Sun Ra Conference at South Shore recording studio
View ArticleSHE, a Vagina Monologue/ For Colored Girls Update?
This is why I am co-producing a show, along with multi-talented dancer and choreographer Jinah Parker, called SHE. The best way to describe it is Eve Ensler’s THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES meets Ntozake...
View ArticleMemorial for Hugo "Yogi" Lyon Pinell--Marvin X will participate, Saturday,...
Commemoration of a legend who stood on the battlefield with Comrade George Jackson and never wavered from his commitment to the struggle for justice within the beast's belly during his 51 years of...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Madam Mayor Libby Schaaf, Please give...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Madam Mayor Libby Schaaf, Please give Straight Outta Oakland, the BAM 27 City Tour, a benefit concert at the Paramount Theatre!
View ArticleAbstract for Straight Outta Oakland, the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour
While in Philadelphia participating in the 60th Birthday Celebration for imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, Marvin X recruited a Dream Team of artists, activists, educators and promoters for the 27...
View ArticleParable of the Parrot and Parable of the Penguin by Marvin X (aka El Plato...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011Parable of the Parrot by Marvin X Parable of the Parrotfor Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and the Pan African Revolution The king wanted parrots around him. He wants all his ministers to wear...
View ArticleMarvin X reviews Django in Black Hollywood Unchained, edited by Ishmael Reed,...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013Django, finally, the black hero who kills white people! What a change from my childhood attendance at the movie house watching the white man kill Indians and we sometimes...
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