Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X West coast/East coast tour, Living...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X West coast/East coast tour, Living Black ...: If I don't promote myself, who is? If I don't love myself, who is? Philly Sister said, "Marvin X loves himself...
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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 Stray Cat
Parable of the Stray Catsby Marvin XThere was a man who loved stray cats. He loved finding them on the street, in the alley, anywhere they were drifting and drifting from whomever would be kind enough...
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Parable of the Dog
Parable of the DogThe dog is worse than the cat. The cat will come and go as T.S. Eliot said women do, "The women come and go talking of Michelangelo...." Dogs are loyal, yes, but the dog will go crazy...
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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, Oaxaca. Marvin X had received a National Endowment for the Arts writing fellowship to research North...
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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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Poet Marvin X in tears at Duke University over transition of Nisa Bey
Tonight, Oakland poet Marvin X broke down into tears as he tried to read his poem on his recently departed friend Nisa Bey during the Black Muslim Atlantic Conference at Duke University, Durham...
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If anybody was right
"If anybody was right, I would be for somebody. But ain't nobody right, so I ain't for nobody.Vote for me, I'll set you free! A chicken in every pot. I'll make you the greatest! I'm the...
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Marvin X Book Tour and Performance Dates
Marvin X Book TourOakland December 7, 2019Dr. Cornel West and Marvin X in Conversation,Geoffery's Inner Circle, BAMBD Oakland CAJanuary 25, Saturday, 12 NoonMarvin X Welcomes NCobra Reparations...
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Marvin X enters Brooklyn, New York Detention Complex
MARVIN X READS IN NEW YORK CITYSUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2020MARVIN X AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOPHOTO BURELL SUNRISESUNDAY FEBRUARY 9BROOKLYN COLLEGE, 2-5PM, with Q and A2900 BEDFORD AVE, BROOKLYN...
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Harlem ain't Harlem no mo'
Harlem ain't Harlem no mo'Marvin X in Harlem, 1968photo Doug HarrisHarlem reception for Marvin X at home of Rashidah Ismaili, 2014Chapbook published in Harlem, 1968, while the poet lived underground...
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My main man, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, RIP
Edward Kamau Brathwaite obituaryPoet and academic who aimed to create a distinctively Caribbean form of poetry to celebrate the region’s voices and languageLyn InnesWed 5 Feb 2020 13.49 ESTLast...
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Marvin X and the Baraka Brothers at NewArk NJ City Hall
Marvin X and the Baraka BrothersThe Brick City ModelStay turned for X's report on his east coast book tourNOTES OF ARTISTIC FREEDOM FIGHTER MARVIN XNewArk NJ Mayor Ras Baraka in his office during...
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Off the Record, Marvin X, Sun Reporter Newspaper Political Columnist
Off the Record2/13/20By Marvin XSun Reporter Political ColumnistPoet/political columnist Marvin X in Newark NJ with the Baraka brothers,left, Amiri Middy Baraka, Jr., Chief of Staff, right, the...
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What is Love by Marvin X
Graphic design by Emory DouglasBlack Panther Party Minister of CultureWith respect to Marvin X, declaring Muslim American literature as a field of study is valuable because recontextualizing it will...
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Notes on The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience Book Tour 2020
Notes on The Wild Crazy Ride of the Marvin X Experience Book Tour 2020Durham, North CarolinaDuke UniversitySymposium on Black Muslim AtlanticJanuary 30-31, 2020We arrived in Durham, North Carolina a...
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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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New Book on the Historic SF State Strike: ‘Black Student Leaders Analyze the Movement They Led’By Gay Plair Cobb -January 30, 20200685Before 1968, California colleges were pretty much all white. A...
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Off the RecordSF Mayor London Breed and Muhammad NuruDr Raye Richardson, Mother of Black Studies, 99 Marvin XSubject: Mayor Breed and Muhammad Nuru, Much to do about nothingDespite the personal...
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James G Spady, Critic, gone from usl
A great Critic has departed, leaving us with Miller lite critiques of our condition in Babylon, the great whore. Unity criticism unity, long live the spirit of James G Spady.--MARVIN XJamesG...
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