PAINTER JAMES GAYLES BOOK ON ART AND LITERATURE
COMING SOON!!!My first book "Reflections" will be out in July. It will be a collaboration between my artwork and 25 local, national and international poets and writers.BLACK ART BY JAMES GAYLES
View ArticleCAMPAIGN to Bring Mumia Abu Jamal Home
The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home(released, May 31, 2014 by The Campaign to Bring Mumia Home)Legal Update In 2011, the international movement to free Mumia scored a major victory. After having stopped...
View ArticleYuri Kochiyama, friend of Malcolm X and Marvin X, joins ancestors, 93
I am shaken to hear that my dear revolutionary friend, Queen Mother Yuri Kochiyama, has joined the ancestors at 93 years old. When Malcolm X was assassinated, Yuri cradled his head in her arms....
View ArticleEmory Douglas reception at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin,...
Marvin X will be at the Joyce Gordon Gallery for the Emory Douglas exhibit reception, Friday, June 6. Emory is the Black Panther Party Minister of Culture. Emory came into the BPP via Marvin X's Black...
View ArticleMarvin X reads and discusses his controversial Mythology of Pussy and Dick,...
Young couple with their copy of X's controversial pamphlet Mythology of Pussy and DickYoung lady from the ATL met her boyfriend at X's Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, OaklandMarvin X reads...
View ArticleAdam Turner Collage of Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and...
Adam Turner photography and collage, special to the Oakland Post News GroupThe Black Arts Movement honors Amiri BarakaBy Aqueila M. LewisThe Black Arts Movement (BAM) Poets Choir and Arkestra honored...
View ArticleCaribbean Book Festival at Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn NY
36 Writers. 18 Countries. WORD!Sunday, June 8, 2014Medgar Evers College1650 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NYRoundtables2:00Space on the Shelf - Creativity and commerce as it relates to Caribbean writers...
View ArticleUS Oligarchy, no democracy
17 April 2014 Share this pageStudy: US is an oligarchy, not a democracyWhat in the world?Pieces of global opinionThis man does not like to be disturbed while he's running the USA review of the best...
View ArticleSeattle WA workers win $15/hour min wage war with Socialist City Council Woman
JUN4Seattle’s Fight for $15/hour: Leave No One BehindSeattle’s Fight for $15/hour: Leave No One Behind“Socialists are supposed to lead the fight, not the retreat!”by Linda AverillFreedom SocialistJune...
View ArticleUS bishops and Iranian ayatollahs meet in Iran
US bishops and Iranian ayatollahs hold talks on nuclear armsBy PATRICIA ZAPOR on Thursday, 15 May 2014The religious leaders meet at the Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library in Qom, Iran, in March (CNS/...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Emory Douglas reception at the Joyce Gordon...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Emory Douglas reception at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin, downtown OaklandRevolution comes to downtown Oakland with the exhibit of Black Panther artist...
View ArticleEmory Douglas exhibit reception at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland
Marvin X and revolutionary artist Emory Douglas celebrate the opening of Emory's exhibit at Oakland's Joyce Gordon Gallery last night. They have been friends since Emory walked into the Black House, a...
View ArticleBobby Seale, Amiri Baraka, Ahi Baraka, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga and Marvin X at...
Godfathers of the Black Arts Movement, Marvin X (West Coast), Amiri Baraka (East Coast)BAM was a national movement of revolutionary artists/activists/scholars. Marvin X is working on a 27 city tour of...
View ArticleMembers of the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra at the Berkeley...
Members of the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra: Zena Allen, Kora player, Marvin X, poet, playwright, director, producer; Violinist Tarika Lewis and Choreographer/dancer Linda...
View ArticleThe Dr. Cornel West/Marvin X connection
Poor PeopleFor Cornel and TavisMarvin X is the poorest famous person I ever met.--Toya CarterStay poor, Marvin, it will keep you honest and truthful.--Dr. Nathan HareWe are poor...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Navigating the perilous mental landscape
Black Bird Press News & Review: Navigating the perilous mental landscapeWatch the zombie in the car ahead of you. He may be sleep walking or sleep talking or texting or having sex--his blinker says...
View ArticleOakland Police shut down Marvin X's Academy of da Corner
Marvin X's Academy of da Corner was shut down yesterday by the Oakland Police Department after they received a complaint from the person in charge of Frank Ogawa Plaza (renamed Oscar Grant Plaza). The...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Marvin X Guest Editor of Journal of Pan African Studies...
Journal of Pan African Studies is OnlineThe Journal of Pan African Studies works to become a beacon of light in the sphere of African world community studies and research, grounded in an...
View ArticleBe careful, first you are an elder, then you become an ancestor!--Dr. Nathan...
Marvin X in conversation with Amiri Baraka, the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
View ArticleThe American Beast in the Middlle East
We told you years ago the war in Iraq would not truly begin until the Americans departed, that she had opened Pandora's box of sectarianism and added flames to the fires burning in Bait Islam,...
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