Marvin X's New Year's Message and notes on the upcoming Nigga Debate
Marvin X at Oscar Grant Plaza, Oaklandphoto Pendarvis HarshawOften we dream a dream impossible, and in our starry-eyed romanticism, clouded by our rose colored glasses, we imagine a world of make...
View ArticleBob Marley-No Woman no Cry
No woman no cryno woman no cryno friend no cryno revolutionary no cryno dirt floor no cryno light in night no cryno woman no crydon't take down Trenchtownno povertyno foodno lightno woman no crydirt...
View ArticleMLK Jr. Event
It's showtime...2nd Annual MLK Jr. Drum Major for Freedom Breakfasthttps://2018mlkfreedombreakfast.eventbrite.comHappy New Year from your friends and family at Allen Temple Health and Social Services!...
View ArticleWorld Premier of Lifer, a play by Ayodele Nzinga at the Flight Deck
Lifer is based on the true life account of events that occurred during Glenn Baileys 52 years of incarceration in the California Penal System.This work brings a season dedicated to exploring the world...
View ArticleMarvin X poem: In the silence of centuries
In the silence of centuriestrees speakmountainsrolling rivers say my namei listen walk tall in the sunsnow ice hurricane earthquake no matterterror bombs walk beside meexploding as I gaze upon...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: the movement, december 2017, children's...
Black Bird Press News & Review: the movement, december 2017, children's issue, print editionThe Movement, the most beautiful writer's journal in the world! Every page is a work of art. It is beauty...
View ArticleAhed Tamjimi: The Mandela of Palestine by Mark Levine
Ahed Tamimi: The Mandela of PalestineAhed Tamimi is now a statistic. Just one of thousands of Palestinians illegally imprisoned by Israel as it crosses the half way point of its fifty-first year of...
View ArticleThe Nigga Debate:Some Notes on Ways to Recognize a Real Nigguh by Marvin X
A Pan African Nigguh will have a weave or wig and bleach creamed face. You will think she is an American born nigguh until you hear the accent! An African nigguh will get mad when you call him African...
View ArticleNigguh Please! by Marvin X
Nigguh Please!by Marvin XThe black culture police are at it again, lead running dog is Rev. Jesse Jackson, perhaps the most hypocritical culture policeman on the scene--especially after leading...
View ArticleParable of the Rats
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2015Parable of the Rats by Marvin XThe rats all have the same gait: they scurry about, back broken by an abundance of lies, half-truths and disinformation, defamation and other...
View ArticleHip Hop's television takeover
"When you listen to Tupac Shakur, E-40, Too Short, Master P or any other rappers out of the Bay Area of Cali, think of Marvin X. He laid the foundation and gave us the language to express black male...
View ArticleAmerica is a Shithole!
You didn't know Trump was a white nationalist? Now you know! You didn't know he was a devil? Now you know! Did you know Europe and America under developed Africa, Haiti and other "shitholes" around...
View ArticleJanteenth year two (January 19, 2016, BAMBD made official by Oakland City...
Did you know the City of Oakland established the Black Arts Movement Business DistrictJanuary 19, 2016?And two years later you don't know about the BAMBD? Ask your City Councilperson for the area,...
View ArticleHold Oakland Whole Foods accountable for racist violence--protest Tuesday,...
Whole Foods has been attacking folks of color within the past two years—going as far as attacking and racially profiling two black men, and a young, black teenager in recent reports. Their gentrifying...
View ArticleBook release: The Movements of Movements
U New from PM Press$29.95 | 688 Pages ISBN: 9781629632407The Movements of Movements Part 1: What Makes Us Move? ______________ Edited by Jai Sen ______________ Use coupon...
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Hot New Jobs Near 94606 QA Tester $79,042 per year - Oakland, CA Jan 17 View OpeningsPostal Worker $68,148 per year - Oakland, CA Jan 17 View OpeningsAirline Baggage Coordinator $20.40 per hour -...
View ArticleMarvin X new poem, 2018: Divine Discontent
What make god and goddess happy?Original man/womanAboriginaleverywhere find us tracesbones in sandprimitive art Picasso copycopy cats plagiarists original manmad in babylongenerationalno post...
View ArticleLorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
For Lorraine Hansberry, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Was Just the Start Salamishah Tillet January 12, 2018New York Times For Lorraine Hansberry, art was not simply an expression of her civil rights concerns...
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