White supremacy in defining mental health in America
It is amazing how quickly white men who commit acts of violence, including mass murder, are labeled suffering mental disabilities, but North American Africans are simply sane hoodlums, thugs, or...
View ArticleMarvin X: The Meta-Mayor of Oakland CA
Marvin X: The Meta-Mayor of Oakland CAMaster Writer Ishmael Reed has always honored and supported Marvin X. Reed's Literary Society Pen Oakland, presented Marvin X with a lifetime achievement award. Of...
View ArticleMarvin X Mexican
Marvin X MexicanMarvin X and sons, Abdul (Darrel, RIP) and Hakim (Marvin K) visited Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, 1972Vamanos vamanoslet's gofresno central valley field hollarhappy chant day endcotton field...
View ArticleParable of the Dog
Parable of the Dog"The ghetto wasn't bad enoughthen the hippies camedog shit everywhere....ghetto wasn't bad enoughthen the neo-colonial hippies camedogs everywhereWOMAN AND DOG MISSINGREWARD FOR...
View ArticlePlease Support the Marvin X Books Project Gofundme Campaign
1 2Marvin X Book Project$225 of $50,000Donate Now Share on Facebook Share TweetBe the first to shareStoryUpdates 1Coming soon from Black Birdg PressNotes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin...
View ArticleRamal Lamar reviews Cold Wind from the North: The Prehistoric Origins of...
Cold Wind from the North: The Prehistoric European Origins of Racism Explained by Diop's Two Cradle Theory. By Vulindlela Ijiola Wobogo (Charleston: Books on Demand, 2011. Pp. 554. Contents,...
View ArticleMarvin X review of Dr. Ayodele Nizinga's Protective Shields at the Flight...
Notes on Dr. Ayodele Nzinga's mytho-magical drama: Protection ShieldsbyMarvin XDr. Ayodele Nzinga, founder, producer, playwright and director of Oakland's Lower Bottom Playaz opened a new play at the...
View ArticleMarvin X Notes 9/25/18
Gemini twins, Marvin and Sun Ra. How many people are in this picture? Marvin claims ten people travel and live with him. Sun Ra controlled his multiple personalities as band leader, visionary, prophet,...
View ArticleNew poem by Marvin X: I can't believe in death
Poet Marvin X/El Muhajir at Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland City Hall, Black Arts Movement Business District, co-founded by Marvin X, passed by the Oakland City Council, January 19, 2016photo...
View ArticleHey Player, Hustler, Youtube Scholar, Give your woman conscious knowledge
According to the Holy Bible, the people were destroyed for lack of knowledge, not lack of money, knowledge. The Buddhists teach that wisdom is knowledge plus the Right Action, not any means necessary...
View ArticlePart Two: I don't believe in death
No Prince Luther Michaelnosing forever Prince Luther MichaelsngBarrysingBessieBillieSarahsingwisdom songsfor all the wicked nightsbroken lovepromisesliesbooty runsmale/femalesing to us song saviorskeep...
View ArticleI Am Marcus Garvey
I Am Marcus Garvey, A Monologue by Marvin X The Most Honorable Marcus GarveyPoet, Playwright Marvin Xphoto Kamau Amen Ra (RIP)I am Marcus Garvey, Jamaican born African man. The winds of Jamaica blew my...
View Article"Soledad Brother" John Clutchette stops by Marvin X's Academy of da Corner,...
John said we must free Ruchell McGee! And I agree. I suggest when Kanye West meets with your President Trump tomorrow, he suggest giving a general amnesty to all incarcerated in American prisons. John...
View ArticleNotes final draft 10/12/18
Vol. I, Rough DraftNotes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X 10/11/18ContentsIntroduction by Dr. Nathan Hare, PhD., Sociology, PhD., Clinical PsychologyNote #1 The wild crazy ride of the Marvin X...
View ArticleMarvin X new poem: The Moment between light and darkness
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2018Marvin X new poem: The Moment between light and darknessMarvin X reading with his Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra, featuring David Murray, Tacuma King and Val, et...
View ArticleSF-Oakland Bay Area honors Black radical renaissance man Wilfred T. Ussery's...
Today, Sunday, October 14, 2018 The Honorable Wilfred T. Ussery celebrated his 90th b day at Oakland's Geoffrey's Inner CircleThe Bay Area's Black renaissance man, Wilfred T. Ussery, was honored on his...
View ArticleMarvin X poem: A real nigga ain't eatin' greens without cornbread
Maestro Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra, Malcolm X Jazz/Art Festival, Oakland, 2015photo collage Adam TurnerA REAL NIGGA AIN'T EATIN' GREENS WITHOUT CORNBREADI don't care...
View ArticleMarvin X and Dr. Lonnie Smith
How many poems must I write about Hammond B3 and Me?There is no me without Hammond B3 7th Street sacred musicFor me anywayDon’t care bout nobody elseB3 stole my soulNo matter jazz blues gospel rock n...
View ArticleExcerpt from Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X: Notes #10 and #11
#10 The Politics of SportsAlthough Dr. Harry Edwards supposedly pioneered the sociology of sports, Dr. Nathan Hare wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Chicago on sports, and was a professional...
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