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...
View ArticleUpdate 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...
View ArticleWill 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...
View ArticleJitu 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...
View ArticleLetter 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...
View ArticleMarvin 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...
View ArticleMarvin 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...
View ArticleNew 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....
View ArticleMarvin 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...
View ArticleNotes 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...
View ArticleChokwe 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...
View ArticleObama: 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...
View ArticleReview: 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...
View ArticleNotes 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,...
View ArticleMarvin 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...
View ArticleMandela receiving intensive care CCTV News - CNTV English
Mandela receiving intensive care CCTV News - CNTV English
View ArticleAries 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...
View ArticleNuyorican 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...
View ArticleAll 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...
View ArticleEgypt 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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