My Angel came by today
My Angel came by today Lakeshore Ave., Oakland CAMarvin X on the balcony of the Cliff House Restaurant, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, April 9, 2019, celebrating the 86th birthday of the Most Honorable...
View ArticleMarvin X's magnum opus, Mythology of Pussy and Dick, Poetic Notes on the...
CommentaryI admit the title turned me off-no man would ever lay his hands on me with that kind of language, but you have plenty to say and you say it like it is --even if it makes you feel...
View ArticleOn the mental health status of North American Africans, et al.
As a lay mental health street worker, I was inundated today at my Academy of da Corner, Berkeley flea market. I was scheduled to attend the Bay Area Book Fair in Berkeley, but the Holy Spirit told me...
View ArticleSan Francisco's Sun Reporter Newspaper celebrates 75 years by Marvin X,...
When Sun Reporter Publisher, Amelia Ashley-Ward, invited Dr. Nathan Hare and myself to the 75th anniversary of San Francisco's preeminent North American African newspaper, it didn't dawn on me until...
View ArticleMother's Day at Geoffrey's Inner Circle
We spent Mother's Day evening enjoying jazz and dinner at Geoffrey's Inner Circle, the first class venue in Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District. I invited my associate, Nur Jehan, and my...
View ArticleGoodbye Speedy, Wade Woods, last Fillmore "Negro" Revolutionary
Sunrise October 19, 1945Sunset May 31, 2019Dr. Nathan Hare, founder of Black and Ethnic Studies, SFSU, and Marvin X, M.A., English, SFSU, BSU co-founder and lecturer in Black Studies, Journalism, Radio...
View ArticleMarvin X, Bay Area Juneteenth book tour
As Marvin X signed books at San Francisco Juneteenth, he noticed a "fine" black female officer standing a few feet from him with a white officer. Aside from her beauty, he noticed she had a Muslim...
View ArticleGeneral Kumasi orders Black August soldiers to read Marvin X's Notes
 George Jackson, Messiah of the Black Prison MovementAssassinated by prison guards at San Quentin Prison Black August founders,organizers and participants, left to right: Mama Efia Nwangaza, Human...
View ArticleThe Marvin X Tribe: Jazmin Jackmon graduates from University of Oregon,...
 Congratulations on your graduation from the University of Oregon and joining the Houston Dash, Women's professional soccer team. Love you granddaughter Jazmin.--Marvin X (Jackmon)FYI, like all...
View ArticleUpdate: Dr. Cornel West/Marvin X Conversationj
Update: Dr. Cornel West/Marvin X Conversation on Critical IssuesLocal, National, InternationalDecember, 2019Date, Time, Place TBAÂ Dr. Cornel West and Marvin X in Philly at the 65th B-Day of Mumia Abu...
View ArticleReview by Marvin X: Last Black Man in San Francisco
 Danny Glover, grandfather The Nigga Greek Chorus Jimmy Fails as Jimmy and co-writer Jimmy Fails and Johnathan Majors as Jimmy and Mont Tichina Arnold as AuntiLast weekend, writer Cecil Brown stopped...
View ArticleMarvin X Speaks, autographs books at Marin City Juneteenth
Marvin X speaks and autographs Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter at Marin City Juneteenth, Saturday, June 29, 2019 Marvin X speaks, Third Baptist Church, San Franciscophoto Adam Turner 3rd Annual Marin...
View ArticleParable of the man who went to Ignutville
There was a man who traveled to Stupidville on his way to Ignutville. In Stupidville he observed people doing the most stupid shit imaginable. They talked stupid shit, did stupid shit, lived stupid...
View ArticleMarvin X on the rights/rites of women
If truth be told, and it must, many religious based myth-rituals must be cast into the dustbin of history. Aspects of patriarchal manhood and womanhood rites of passage are archaic and dehumanizing and...
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