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Long Live the Positive Spirit of David Glover, Director of OCCUR (RIP)

Friends, family celebrate Oakland community leader David GloverBy Angela Woodall Oakland TribunePosted:   05/24/2013 03:55:21 PM PDTUpdated:   05/24/2013 04:28:34 PM PDTOAKLAND -- Some people struggle...

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Update on the destruction of the statue of Sojourner Truth by Elizabeth...

Again, why are the house negroes in Sac singing Silent Night about the destruction to our history? Answer, because they are house negroes!--Marvin XThanks so much for checking in. I have been in...

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Will Howard Dodson Jr. help secure the Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare...

Howard Dodson Jr. has returned to work, trying to make Howard research center great againWe think Howard Dodson Jr. may be the man to resurrect the Moreland Library, literally, from the dustbin of...

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Jitu Weusi's Transition Ceremonies, Brooklyn NY

JITU WEUSI'S TRANSITION CEREMONIESFriday, May 24, 2013Services for Jitu WeusiJITU K. WEUSI  Educator, Activist, Brother, Baba, Friend, Comrade, and Giant--Has Made His Transition into Eternal...

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Letter from Belize, Central America: Evan X. Hyde

In 1970, after being banned from teaching from Fresno State University and convicted of refusing to go to Vietnam, Marvin X went into his second self-imposed exile from America, he traveled to Mexico...

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Marvin X speaks on the Black Arts Movement today, University of California,...

photo Don J. UsnerThis morning, Marvin X, one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement, along with Amiri Baraka, Askia Toure, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Sun Ra, Larry Neal, et al., will speak...

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Marvin X Speaks at the University of California, Merced 5/30/2013

University of California, Merced Students view the writings and archives of Black Arts Movement poet, playwright, philosopher Marvin X. Marvin spoke on a variety of topics in a two hour dialogue with...

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New York Times: Harlem Memorial for Malcolm X's Grandson

Michael Appleton for The New York TimesIlyasah Shabazz spoke during the memorial service Thursday for Malcolm Shabazz at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem.“He idolized his grandfather,” Ms....

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Marvin X and his Academy of da Corner will be at Berkeley's Juneteenth...

Marvin X at his Academy of da Corner table at the Berkeley Flea Market, the crossroads ofBay Area North American African culture and art. His table is described as "The Militant table"!He will be at...

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Notes from the Master Teacher of Black Studies: Dr. Nathan Hare

Marvin,I see you’re still working on it, still a poet. Dr. Ruth Love said she was going to be sending somebody to help with the archives.Speaking of Asa and the maroon within us, I first learned about...

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Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi--Black Power!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 4, 2013NATIONAL CONTACT:  Kali AkunoPHONE:  323.422.6025 LOCAL JACKSON CONTACT: Chokwe Antar LumumbaPHONE: 601.629.7684 Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, MS with...

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Obama: Big "Brother" is Watching You!

There is no doubt: President Obama is Bush on steroids! Now those of us in the hood know all too often the black cop is worse than the white cop, the black jailer is worse than the white jailer, the...

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Review: Marvin X's In the Crazy House Called America, essays

Thursday, June 30, 2011Review: In the Crazy House Called AmericaMarvin X Offers A Healing Peek Into His PsycheBy Junious Ricardo StantonRarely is a brother secure and honest enough with himself to...

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Notes from the Master Teacher of Black Studies to Marvin X: Dr. Nathan Hare

Dr. M,Also folded in the book with the birthday greeting card to me from Max Stanford, aka Dr. Muhammad Ahmed (most feared black militant by FBI in the late 1960s) is a note from a boy named Cadence,...

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Marvin X at San Francisco Juneteenth this weekend

photo Don J. Usnerphoto Gene HazzardAt San Francisco's Juneteenth, Marvin X will autograph books and exhibit his archives as well as the archives of Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare. SF Juneteenth is...

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Mandela receiving intensive care CCTV News - CNTV English

Mandela receiving intensive care CCTV News - CNTV English

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Aries Jordan: Poem on the Shaman's Ordeal by Fire

The Shaman's Ordeal by Fire                              photo Gene HazzardYou say "I love you" but can't stand youWe both laugh the feeling is mutualStudent  TeacherDear Teacher, have you learned...

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Nuyorican Poets Cafe Salutes Ancestor Sekou Sundiata

A Summerstage Tribute to Sekou Sundiata  FREE Poetry Slam at the Brooklyn MuseumBanana Puddin Presents Young Ladies of JazzLivingSocial VIP dealSight of Sound ProjectWant a deal on VIP tickets to our...

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All Rats Shall Face the Door of No Return

Obama, King of Africa and the World, must see the Door of No Return for his crimes against humanity, along with Chad's Hissene Habre, Haiti's Baby Doc and Guatemala's Rios Montt ! --Marvin XSenegal...

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Egypt and the process of revolution

Marvin X at memorial for Little Malcolm Shabazz, Oakland CAphoto Reginald James/Courtesy of Shabazz FamilyDuring the 60s, we thought revolution would come overnight, that capitalism and imperialism...

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