It's lonely at the top, at the bottom too!
It's lonely at the top, lonely at the bottom too. They say (whomever they are) to have a friend one must be a friend. But what do you do when friends join the ancestors, or get old, sick and crazy? How...
View ArticleNotes on Abolish Police and Prisons by Marvin X
Notes on Abolish Police and Prisons by Marvin X"Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland."--Ishmael Reed, Lecturer Emeritus, UC Berkeley"Marvin X is the African Socrates teaching in the...
View ArticleReview, The Wisdom of Plato Negro--Renaissance of Imagination
Renaissance of Imagination A Review of The Wisdom of Plato Negroparables, fablesby Marvin XReview by Rudolph LewisFor Marvin X, a founder and veteran of the Black Arts Movement of the late 60s/early...
View ArticleDraft #1 The Movement BAMFEST/BLACK AUGUST 2020
    BAMFEST/BLACK AUGUST EDITION 2020   GENEROUS DONATIONS  ACCEPTEDReader Note of caution: This publication is MARVIN X’S POETIC NOTEBOOK (wherein he exercises Absolute Freedom of Speech,...
View ArticleNow Available from Black Bird Press: How to Recover from the Addiction to...
Press ReleaseFrom:Â Black Bird Press339 Lester Ave. #10Oakland CA 94606mxjackmon@gmail.com510-575-7148http://www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.comMarvin X/Dr. Mphoto Gene Hazzard"Marvin X is Plato...
View ArticleBLAXIT Virtual Community forum on leaving or staying in America
Moderator Muhammida El MuhajirBlack Arts Movement Co-founder Poet/activist Marvin X will participate
View ArticleBlaxit: America, Love her or leave her?
BLAXIT: SHOULD WE STAY IN THE USA OR GO BACK TO AFRICA?Since the ending of slavery in the United States, there has been an ongoing debate about whether Black Americans (the descendants of Africans...
View ArticleMiles Davis - Sketches of Spain (1960) (Full Album)
Two daughters of Marvin X, Nefertiti and Attorney Amira Jackmon with Cornel West at the Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness Concert, San Francisco State University, 2001
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