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Oakland Post Publisher's Vision for the Bay Area Black Arts Movement 50th...
Special to the Post Newspaper Group Post Newsgroup Publisher Paul Cobb and poet/activist/educator Marvin X are childhood friends from West Oakland. Paul says to youth, "Crack a book before you're...
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Marvin X returns to Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, Oakland
Marvin X says, "Join the Black Arts Movement cultural revolution in the Bay Area, 2015. There is something for everybody to do. I am an old man, don't make me do everything!" See the latest Oakland...
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Right Wing Rush Limbaugh defends Bill Cosby
“THEY’RE TRYING TO DESTROY BILL COSBY” FOR TELLING BLACKS TO BE RESPONSIBLE, SAYS RUSH LIMBAUGHBY YVETTENOVEMBER 15, 2014 BLACK NEWS Bill Cosby came under fire after comedian Hannibal Buress drew...
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Marvin X poem: Apology to my Higher Self
Marvin X poem: Apology to my Higher Self and Miles Davis - Time After Time (Live 1985) Apology to My Higher SelfOh, Higher SelfI apologize to youGreater SelfHoly SelfRighteous SelfI seek to harm no...
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Marvin X calls for Lesbian army to help produce Bay Area Black Arts Festival...
photo Adam Turner, Black Bird Productions After an absence of many weeks, Marvin X returned to his Academy of da Corner at 14th and Broadway to encounter numerous young lesbians seeking cultural...
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Join the BAM army for the cultural revolution, 2015
We urge you to enlist in the army of the Bay Area-wide Black Arts Movement cultural revolution/celebration, 2015, in honor of Amina and Amiri Baraka. Amiri Baraka was the key mover and shaker of BAM,...
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Planners want Black Arts Movement District declared for 14th Street, downtown...
Left to Right: The Black Arts Movement's chief visionary Amiri Baraka, Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, Theatre Director Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Ahi Baraka and Marvin X at X's Academy of da...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X's Grand Vision for the Bay Area...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X's Grand Vision for the Bay Area Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Black Arts Movement, 2015
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Laney College will kick off the Black Arts Movement 50th anniversary...
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives...
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From Oakland's Day of Absence to Ferguson and the Power of the People
Parable of Oakland's Day of AbsenceBrother Gregory Fields told Plato Negro about Oakland's Day of Absence, the day when the verdict in the Oscar Grant murder trial was to be announced. Gregory said he...
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BAM Artists seek "Black Arts Movement District" in Oakland
Caption: Left to right, Amiri Baraka, chief visionary of the Black Arts Movement; Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party; theatre director Dr. Ayodele Nzinga; Ahi Baraka; and Marvin X at...
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Alice Walker and the Black Arts Movement
Alice Walker (b. 1944)Alice Walker is an African American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the...
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Kali Akuno on the People's Assembly: Jackson, Mississippi Model
Chokwe Lumumba, radical mayor of Jackson, Miss., dies at 66. Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Lumumba delivers his inaugural address on July 1, 2013. The death of Chokwe Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson,...
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The Bay Area BAM declares Black Fridays for Oakland Black Arts Movement District
Planners of the Black Arts Movement call for Black Fridays in the Black Arts Movement District from 14th and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way to 14th and Alice, downtown Oakland. The first and last Friday...
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Black 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 Arkestra:
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BAM Babies 3.0 with Master Poet Marvin X at his Academy of da Corner, Berkeley
Marvin X and BAM Babies 3.0photo Ustadi Nisa Ra and Marvin X with their BAM Baby 2.0, Muhammida El Muhajir. Muhammida works in Ghana, West Africa.In conversation with Nisa Ra, one of the members of...
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Response from Educators for Mumia Abu Jamal to Dialogue between Bob Avakian...
EMAJ Statement on the Riverside Church Cornel West/Bob Avakian “Dialogue”WHAT REVOLUTION LOOKS LIKE IN THE USAA Response from Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal (EMAJ) to the Riverside...
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Oakland Mayor Elect Libby Schaaf endorses the Black Arts Movement 50th...
Black Arts Movement 27 City National TourThe mission of the Black Arts Movement’s 27 City Tour is to continue the cultural revolution we initiated during the 1960s. This cultural revolution is still...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: The Black Arts Movement (BAM)--the Most...
Black Bird Press News & Review: The Black Arts Movement (BAM)--the Most Radical Artistic and Literary Movement in American History:Seven years ago, in a Time magazine issue devoted to contemporary...
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A short history of the Bay Area Black Arts Movement
Negro es bello/Black is beautiful by Elizabeth Catlett MoraMany of the Black Arts Movement’s leading artists, including Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, Askia...
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