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BLACK MUSLIM ATLANTICThursday and Friday, January 30-31, 2020“The Ruby” Arts Center2020 Campus DriveDuke UniversityThis symposium was envisioned and organized with Imam AbdulHafeez Waheed to honor the...
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Belated hapi b-day poem for Amina Baraka
Amina BarakaMy revolutionary comradeAB my comrade tooWe brothers and sisters reallyBeyond friendsUnited in revolutionary blood and joySo many good times togetherCoast to coastBlack house SFSpirit house...
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Homeless: Cruel and Unjust Punishment
To be homeless is cruel and unjust punishment for the economic and/or mental condition of the poor, working poor and especially the displaced. Imagine, gentrification has caused displacement throughout...
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We can begin with security as a national failure. The USA just passed a $700 billion defense budget but just as it cannot secure its borders, it cannot secure its children at school. We question the...
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Dr. Ayodele Nzinga: Grand Diva of Drama in the Bay
Ayo has come a long way and is now the undisputed Grand Diva of Drama in the Bay. I pushed her into community development as the founder of the Black Arts Movement Business District CDC. As my star...
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Is this the suicide of the Democratic Party?
"Congresswoman Barbara Lee is the only Democrat Party member I love and respect. She stood alone in the US Congress against the war in Iraq. I love you, Barbara Lee!"--Marvin XThe Democratic Party has...
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Marvin X reading at University of Chicago Sun Ra Conference, 2015Photo Burrell Sunrise MX and SFSU students in Davey D's classPhoto Davey D Seated Dr Nathan Hare, first chair of black and Ethnic...
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Parable of old sick and crazy by Marvin X
He was old sick and crazy, approaching eighty, suffering a multiple diseases from a toxic life in America, the toll was mental and physical. The physical included heart disease that may have derived...
View ArticleSHADE GREATEST HITS 2017 The best of SHADE / FULL ALBUM /
Sade's line I love the most is, "Every day is Xmas, every night is New Year's Eve!" I live by these lines.With me, every day is a holy day. I don't want to experience one unholy day! I'm scared, yeah!"
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On the death of two sons Marvin X
On the death of two sonsDarrell and Marvin K, two sons of Marvin X in Southern Mexico, Pinotepta, Oxaca. Marvin X had received a National Endowment for the Arts writing fellowship.When my second son...
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Parable of the wind and flowers
The wind talked with the flowers. The flowers told the wind they were overjoyed the ocean drowned all those ugly hateful ungrateful humans. Yes the wind said, I blew their asses off the face of the...
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Parable of the perfect man and the savages
In his full blown delusional mind, he was the crown jewel of God's love and mercy to the world. Except for him, the world could not and would not exist without his presence going to and fro spreading...
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Poem for 2020
POEM for 2020Ola, Dos mil veinteOla, vamonosLet's get it onperfect visioncan't claim blindnessyou see clearly nowno excuseYou see GodYou see devildon't lie in 2020No fake news fake blues fake jazz fake...
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If I had my choice
Fania and Angela DavisIf I had my choiceI wanna see huey in the Acorn projectsrusty and dustycracked out but solid in thinkingthe last time I saw himwe smoked crack to no endbut it was beyond...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: If I had my choice
Black Bird Press News & Review: If I had my choice: Fania and Angela Davis If I had my choice I wanna see huey in the Acorn projects rusty and dusty cracked out but solid in thinking...
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#3 Off the Record, the political column of Marvin X
#3 Off the Record, the political column of Marvin XDid not Iran through General Soleimani support the American defeat of Isis in Iraq? Did not his militias fight along side the Americans to halt ISIS...
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You say you know blues
You say you know bluesblue in cotton fieldsblue cane fieldsblue lynchingblue rape male female childbluenew year's day blueblue auction block bluemama down riverhusband lover riverchild riverblue new...
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Prayers for SF Mayor London Breed
On the eve of the inauguration of SF Mayor London Breed, Third Baptist Church, officiated by Rev Amos Brown, hosted an interfaith prayer service Monday evening, January 6, 2020. Sun Reporter Newspaper...
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