NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
The 2014 Grand Slam happens tomorrow!U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey!Salome: Voodoo Princess premieres!Watch Mayweather's fight Saturday, during Banana Puddin' Jazz!Our Summerstage show happens...
View ArticleFurious flower Poetry Center
Dear Marvin, In less than six months, fifty of the best established and emerging African American poets will convene at James Madison University along with hundreds of scholars and critics for a...
View ArticleTheme song for the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour: Wakeup Everybody
Plato Negro at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown OaklandRenaissance of Imagination: A Review of Marvin X's Wisdom of Plato Negro, parables, fablesMarvin centers himself in his...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Abstract for the Black Arts Movement 27 City...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Abstract for the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour of the BAM Poet's Choir and ArkestraWhile in Philadelphia, Marvin X was able to win tentative support from the...
View ArticleOutta Town Blues
Well 'm outta here babysee you next time roundoutta here babysee you next time rounddone spent all ma moneytime to get outta towntried to treat ya rightya treated me right tootried to treat ya rightya...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Poets Join the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour
Cities where North American Africans are in large numbersRankCityAfrican-American Population Size (2010 Census)[1]Percentage African-American1New York, New York MSA3,362,61617.82Atlanta, Georgia...
View ArticleDr. Montiero still fighting at Temple University, Philadelphia Pa
Today at 9:03 AM (photo: Dr. Monteiro teaching)Kudos to videographer Ted Passon for crafting the video, to Mumia Abu-Jamal for the narration, and to Jamila K. Wilson for working up the Indiegogo...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Rudolph Lewis Comments on Marvin X's Cleaver...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Rudolph Lewis Comments on Marvin X's Cleaver memoir
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Eldridge Cleaver: My friend the Devil, A...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Eldridge Cleaver: My friend the Devil, A Memoir by Marvin X
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: The Public Career of Marvin X
Black Bird Press News & Review: The Public Career of Marvin XMarvin X at New York University tribute to Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka,Feb. 4, 2014. He performed with bassist Henry Grimes Marvin X...
View ArticleOh the Kora: Toumani' and Sidiki Diabate'
CultureMusicdiabate''Toumani DiabatéToumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté: Toumani & Sidiki review – virtuoso, upbeat kora duets(World Circuit)Robin DenselowThe Guardian, Thursday 1 May 2014 16.00...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Memorial Service for Judge Henry Ramsey, Jr.,...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Memorial Service for Judge Henry Ramsey, Jr., Saturday, May 3, 1-3pm, Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Philadelphia Poets Join the Black Arts...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Philadelphia Poets Join the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour
View ArticleToumani Diabate plays the Kora
The Kora taught melisten Blueseyes behind your headbehind heartthird eye listenBlues beyond listenAli Farka played the Blues they sadAli said transcend Americago ten thousand years backgriot tell us...
View ArticleWAKE UP EVERYBODY - Original Version (Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin &...
This is the theme song of the Black Arts Movement 27 City tour with Marvin X and the Poets Choir and Arkestra. This song tells the essence of what the Black Arts Movement is about, then (1965 in...
View ArticleWhiteness as Property--a symposium at UCLA School of Law, October 2-4, 2014
Call for ProposalsWhiteness as PropertyEighth Critical Race Studies SymposiumUCLA School of LawOctober 2-4, 2014The Critical Race Studies program at the UCLA School of Law will hold its Eighth...
View ArticleOrder of Myth-Ritual Dance Drama: Marvin X & the Black Arts Movement Poets...
BAM Godfather Ancestor Amiri Baraka with bassist Henry Grimes. In honor of Baraka, Marvin X and bassist Henry Grimes performed together at New York University tribute to Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka,...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Race in America: The Grand Denial
Black Bird Press News & Review: Race in America: The Grand DenialThe addiction to white supremacy is at the core of problems in American education, and it is pervasive in all other American...
View ArticleFrom Dr. Muhammad Ahmad: Black Edstats you can use
Black EDSTATS You Can Use:------------------------------------BLACKOUT: Number of Black Students Accepted at the University of California, Berkeley DropsBlack Berkely students in 2010 protest racist...
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