Marvin X poem: I remember Bobby Hutton
Most honorable revolutionary youthona mission of his generationFanon said youth must fulfill or dishonor generation of eldersLittle Bobby revolutionyouth defianceaggrogancepride hubris no card...
View ArticleMiles Davis - Kind of Blue - 1959 (Complete Album)
So whatdon't say shit to meDear White PeopleI love you madlytaught your childrenno matter no hate teachernot sick like thatsick with lovesick need love so badso whatwhere is loveshow her to melet me...
View ArticleThe Majic of JuJu, an appreciation of the Black Arts Movement by Kalamu Ya...
An Excerpt—A Dialogue between Kalamu ya Salaam (Deep River) and Margo Natalie Crawford (Afro-Blue) Afro-Blue: James Baldwin in his short story “Sonny’s Blues” (1957)...
View ArticleBAMBD News from our Pan Africa Editor: Black Love Ghana Tour 2017
The Movement's Pan Africa Editor, Muhammida El Muhajir, and Oakland poet Samantha Akwei in Accra. Samantha was on a family visit to Accra. Muhammida is a North American African who has resettled in...
View ArticleMentally ill Black Woman murdered in NYC by pigs
This just in from Charles Barron!... NYPD kills a mentally challenged 66 year old grandmother...called a 'good shooting'!...How can shooting down a 66 year old grandmother in anyway be called...
View ArticleTom Hayden, Antiwar Activist dead at 76
JUSTICE INITIATIVETom Hayden, Civil Rights and Antiwar Activist Turned Lawmaker, Dies at 76By ROBERT D. McFADDENOCT. 24, 2016New York TimesTom HaydenTom Hayden, who burst out of the 1960s...
View ArticlePaul Robeson play at Black Rep
Fresh from Paradise Island, BahamasTourThe Legendary Berkeley Black Rep "Keepers of the Culture" presents:The NAACP Theater Award Winning "Best One Person Show""The World is my Home-The Life of Paul...
View ArticleBlack Love Lives: The Pan African wedding of Aries Jordan and Muhammad Diaw...
Mrs. Aries Jordan Diaw, Mr. Muhammad Diaw and son Legend Muhammad Mrs. Aries Jordan Diaw and Muhammad Diaw of Senegal Showing off their rings Ghanaian American poet Samantha Akwei told the couple to...
View ArticleBAMBD calls for Town Hall Meeting: Toward Nonviolence in the Black Arts...
Monday, November 7, 2016BAMBD Calls for a Town Hall Meeting: Toward Non-Violence in the Black Arts Movement Business District along the 14th Street corridorFor Immediate ReleaseNovember 5, 2016Shooting...
View ArticleMarvin X's Confidential Notes from BAMBD Planning Session and Council...
BAMBD News Updateconfidential message11/1/16BAMBD planner Marvin X and Oakland City Council President, Lynette McElhaney Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, lead planner of the BAMBD, founder and director of the...
View ArticleMarvin X on the election of Donald Trump as President of the US
Dear Smart ass white boys and girls who know everything in the world but don't really know shit. Six trillion dollars on useless wars in the Middle East! War, what is it good for?I repeat what I said...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Navigating the Perilous Mental Landscape in...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Navigating the Perilous Mental Landscape in the Crazy House Called America
View ArticleSave the date: African Diaspora Bazaar and Crafts Fair, December 18, 2016
Marvin X will sign books and speak on the Black Arts Movement Business Districtphoto Alicia Mason
View ArticleThe Wisdom of Plato Negro
Marvin X at Laney College Theatre, Oakland, 10/1/16photo Alicia MasonIt's not about what Trump will do, it's about what you will do! You said Obama didn't do anything, but what did you do the last...
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