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Oakland's Lake Merritt White Die Hards and Black Resistance
Marvin X, Director, Adama Mosley, Secretary, Ken Johnson, Videographer/photographer, editor, driver. Ken has made his limo available to the BVA for special events. Ken is a retired SF Muni bus driver...
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James Copes and Marvin X, Organizers of Black Vendors at Lake Merritt, rap on...
This interview was videoed by Ken Johnson of the Black Vendors Association, a project partially supported by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. We also acknowledge the assistance of...
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A Poetic Letter to the Taliban
The white Taliban flag flying above a Coca-Cola advertisement at a roundabout in Kabul on Sunday.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York TimesMarvin X reading at the University of Chicago, 2015photo...
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Poetic Letter to Taliban
Poetic Letter to TalibanThe white Taliban flag flying above a Coca-Cola advertisement at a roundabout in Kabul on Sunday.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York TimesMarvin X reading at the...
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A POEM FOR ALL VENDORS: THIS
Wednesday, October 22, 2014Marvin X poem FOR ALL VENDORS: THISYoung men at Marvin X's Academy of Da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland. They are reading an article about themselves that...
View ArticleParable of Revolution in the Hood or Do 4 Self
Parable of Revolution in the HoodWe got up one morning and the hood was under occupation of Black Liberation Fighters, dressed in black, AK47s in hand. NO pigs in sight. All is peaceful, sun shining...
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Love Song for Jazz Man Sonny Simmons in the San Francisco Fog
Without jazz, aka, black classical music, I would be a dead deaf dumb and blind negro. Jazz saved my mind body soul. When I was deep down in the black hole of Crack, stuck on stupid in those SRO rooms...
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Famed photographer Jim Dennis will shoot cover pic for Black Street Magazine,...
http://www.jimdennisphotography.com/Landscapes, Health and Wellnes, Community, Corporate, Music Legends, Nudes Jim Dennis is a renowned Bay Area based photographer whose work has spanned over...
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Michael Morgan, The Maestro, joins Ancestors at 63
ObituariesMichael Morgan, conductor and passionate advocate for classical music, dies at 63Michael Morgan, music director of Oakland East Bay Symphony, in 2013. (San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst...
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BAM without Jazz/Black Classical Music ain't Revolutionary Jazz, Conscious...
Don't Fuck with the Gemini Twins, Marvin X and Sun RaAnd if you can't comprehend Marvin X and Sun Ra, don't claim to understand the Black Arts MovementDon't come at me with some weak ass revisionist...
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Egyptsia Featured Vendor in Black Street Magazine, the voice of Black Street...
Egyptsia Featured Vendor in Black Street Magazine, Voice of Black Street Vendors, Black Bird Press Publication, Published/Edited by Marvin X Release date mid-September...
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Black Street Magazine, draft cover
EgyptsiaFeatured Vendor at Lake Merrittphoto Jim Dennis
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Alternative Facts
Alternative FactsThere's factsalternative factsyou can't see smell touch feellike wind factu ever c windbut that's a factthere's votes you countvotes you can'tghost votesStalin said don't matter who...
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