Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X (the Human Earthquake) Hits Harlem...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X (the Human Earthquake) Hits Harlem on Langston Hughes Birthday, Feb 1Marvin X tour schedule, 2014February 4New York University tribute to Jayne Cortez and...
View ArticlePress Release: Fresno native, poet-playwright Marvin X will speak at the...
For immediate releaseContact: Pamela Young King,President, Fresno Chapter, NAACP559-824-3661Press ReleaseThe Fresno Chapter of the NAACP is proud to present an afternoon with poet-playwright, activist,...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Please Pray for Poet Jayne Cortez
Black Bird Press News & Review: About Poet Jayne Cortez
View ArticleMarvin X Poems for Amina and Amiri Baraka
Of Love, Life and Death in da HoodAnd Job said it bestnaked I came and naked I goasethere is only one lesson to learn in this lifeNature Boy told usto love and be loved in returnall else illusionmoney...
View ArticleAfghanistan's Karzai in talks with Taliban, to hell with US!
Afghanistan's Karzai in secret talks with Taliban.View gallery.By Hamid ShaliziRelated StoriesHamid Karzai Has Been Trying (and Failing) to Secretly Negotiate With the Taliban The Atlantic WireAfghan...
View ArticleMarvin X: The Human Earthquake rocks NYU tribute to poets Jayne Cortez and...
New Yorkers turned out tonight at the NYU tribute to ancestor poets Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka. A second room was opened after the first filled to capacity to hear poetic tributes to fire spitter...
View ArticlePoor offenders hounded over debts by private probation companies
Probation companies hound poor offenders over debtsby Michael Pizzi @michaelwpizzi February 5, 2014 12:15AM ETHuman Rights Watch says private contractors levy fees, threaten arrest for...
View ArticleNigguh family mess: Dr. King's children fight over his archives
You can't bury the N word when you still acting like nigguhs!--Dr. Cornel WestDr. Bernice King’s Bombshell Charge: Brothers Want to Sell MLK’s Nobel Peace PrizeThe ongoing legal battle between Dr....
View ArticleNPR on Amiri Baraka
Author Amiri Baraka sparked a lot of controversy with his writings — and those controversies were reignited with his recent passing. Host Michel Martin speaks with author and professor Mark Anthony...
View ArticleTemple U. Professor Dr. Tony Montiero Cries Foul at White Supremacy...
If you on your job, you won't have a job!--60s sloganNo contract renewal has Temple prof crying foulWritten by Samaria BaileyA Temple University African-American Studies professor is alleging that an...
View ArticleIshmael Reed on Henry Louis Gates
JULY 27, 2009SHARE ON FACEBOOK4SHARE ON TWITTERSHARE ON GOOGLMORE SHARING SERVICEHow Henry Louis Gates Got Ordained as the Nation's "Leading Black Intellectual"Post-Race Scholar Yells Racismby ISHMAEL...
View ArticleDon't miss the Black Arts Movement Conference, UC Merced, Feb 28 thru March...
"I think what Black Arts did was inspire a whole lot of Black people to write. Moreover, there would be no multiculturalism movement without Black Arts. Latinos, Asian Americans, and others all say...
View ArticleLa Tasha Diggs Report
Howdy from The La Digga Report!Dear folks,It's February. Can you believe it? Towards the end of my little hit as a Featured Blogger on Poetry Foundation's Harriet, I crashed. The passage of Amiri...
View ArticleThe Education of Jah Amiel
The Education of Jah AmielThe Education of Jah Amiel chronicles the life of a young North American African by his grandfather.Sunday, January 23, 2011The Education of Jah AmielThe Education of Jah...
View ArticleNotes on Toni Morrison, Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka
Tony MorrisonW.E.B. DuBois to Chairman Mao before a million people at Tienanmen Square,"Thank you for praising me, but in my country I am just a nigguh."Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka lives were...
View ArticleTen Steps to Detox from the Addiction to White Supremacy by Marvin X
Here are some additional steps to Detox from White Supremacy 1. Turn off TVs and remove them from your house.2. Stop buying white supremacy movies and white movies in black face.3. Stop your woman and...
View ArticleMarvin X (the Human Earthquake) coming to Seatte WA soon
If you are Sleepless in Seattle, better rest before the Human Earthquake arrives to git down fada git down! Marvin X has been invited to drop science on the conscious and unconscious community in...
View ArticleBlack Women Lynched
Black Women who were Lynched in AmericaPosted on August 1, 2008 by Henrietta Vinton DavisThe lynching of Laura Nelson(Note: this post is just a partial list of Black Women who were lynched in America....
View ArticleMichelle Alexander on White Supremacy
Is the New Jim Crow the Same Old White Supremacy?: On Michelle Alexanderposted Oct 1, 2013Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, will present...
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