Black Bird Press News & Review: The Hypocritical USA: On the Road to...
Black Bird Press News & Review: The Hypocritical USA: On the Road to Damascus/Armageddon
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From the Archives: Marvin X--the USA's Rumi
photo Gene Hazzardby Bob HolmanBowery Poetry Club, New York CityLast year Marvin X released his magnum opus, Land of My Daughters: Poems 1995-2005 (Black Bird Press), poems that put me in mind of...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: From the Archives: Marvin X--the USA's Rumi
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: California Prisoner Hunger Strike Continues
Black Bird Press News & Review: California Prisoner Hunger Strike ContinuesJesus said liberate the captives! So many millions in the dungeons of America, most arrested while addicted to drugs and...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: From the Archives: Shallow Scholarship at Howard University Black Arts Movement Conference
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: From the Archives: Marvin X--the USA's Rumi
From the Archives: Marvin X--the USA's RumiLast year Marvin X released his magnum opus, Land of My Daughters: Poems 1995-2005 (Black Bird Press), poems that put me in mind of Mawlânâ Jalâl ad-Dîn...
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From the Archives: Shallow Scholarship at Howard University Black Arts Movement Conference by Askia Muhammad, Editor, Final Call, Washington DCAskia is not all wrong. I have heard many black...
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Muhammida El Muhajir--Help a little sista go global!
Friends-I am just days away from the launch of the Hip Hop: The New World Order international screening tour and I am asking friends to consider making a small contribution of $10 in support of me...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Ishmael Reed Reviews The Sayings of Plato...
Ishmael Reed Reviews The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Marvin XHowever, if I had to pin down the influences upon Marvin X’s The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/Fables, I would cite the style of Yoruba texts....
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NYPD says Mosques are terrorism havens
Muslims in America have been under siege since 9/11, but I do not share their suffering. I say welcome to the real world of the American slave system that North American Africans have been subjected to...
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Black Studies going down slow--A case study: Cal State University Long Beach
The closing of Africana Studies at Cal State U. Long Beach reflects the ground Black consciousness has lost since the 1960s. At this point Black Studies sits on the bottom of the multi-cultural ladder...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: NYPD says Mosques are terrorism havensMuslims in America have been under siege since 9/11, but I do not share their suffering. I say welcome to the real world of the...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Oakland's Imam Musa and the American Islamic...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Oakland's Imam Musa and the American Islamic Revolution:Imam Abdul Alim Musa, an African-American convert to Islam, is the head of the Masjid Al Islam mosque in...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: From the Archives: Marvin X--the USA's Rumi: Fly to Allah byMarvin X, is more than poetry--it is singing/song, it is meditation, it isspirit/flowing/flying, it is...
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A review of Cecil Brown's Pryor Lives!: Kiss My Rich, Happy Black...Ass! A...
By Paul WilnerThis review is from: Pryor Lives!: Kiss My Rich, Happy Black...Ass! A Memoir (Paperback)There have been many accounts of legendary comic Richard Pryor's life, most recently including the...
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Marvin X on Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad
photo Doug Harris, Marvin X in Harlem, 1968The two men below influenced my life greatly, one can say I am that I am because of these two men, of which there are no divisions in my heart, I love them...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Black Studies going down slow--A case study: Cal State University Long BeachGreetings from Sri Lanka Marvin! How are you?I agree with all that you have written...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X on Malcolm X and Elijah MuhammadAssassinations happen in all revolutions, betrayal is part of revolution, grow up, study revolution, friends betray each...
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From the Archives: Marvin X reviews film Ali starring Will Smith
"A notable and articulate advocacy of black conscientious objection came from the Nation of Islam. In 1942 Elijah Muhammad was arrested in Chicago and convicted of sedition, conspiracy and violation of...
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President Obama, To bomb or not to bomb Syria!
By ANNE BARNARD and ALISSA J. RUBINPublished: August 30, 201New York TimesBEIRUT, Lebanon — President Obama says he is considering a “limited, narrow” military strike against Syria — an aim that many...
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