Queen Phavia at Laney College Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary Celebration
Catch Marvin X at Oakland's Laney College, February 7, 50th Anniversary of the Black Arts Movement--focus will be on Black Arts West--the Bay Area contribution to the Black Arts Movement.12 Noon--Book...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: A short history of the Bay Area Black Arts...
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View ArticlePhilly Part of the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour
Mrs. Lomax, owner of Philly's WURD Talk Radio Station, told Marvin X, "Don't even think about coming to Philly for the BAM Tour and not having WURD as one of your sponsors!" Marvin was in Philly to...
View ArticleNo North American African should celebrate New Years Day--the worst day in...
The Slaves' New Year's DayDr. Flint owned a fine residence in town, several farms, and about fifty slaves, besides hiring a number by the year. Hiring-day at the south takes place on the 1st of...
View ArticleSee Dr. Ayodele Nzinga's production of Jitney by August Wilson at the Flight...
Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, PhD.Jitney is a must see. If you can, rush, run, fly downtown to the Flight Deck Theatre at 15th and Broadway, go pass the boarded up buildings from I Can't Breathe & Hands...
View ArticleAfter Mecca by Cheryl Clarke: The relationship between the Black Arts...
The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of...
View ArticleNew thoughts on the black arts movement by Lisa Gail Collins and Margo...
During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged...
View ArticleBlack 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
View ArticleTentative Program: Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary Celebration at...
The BAM 50th Anniversary honors Ancestor Amiri Baraka who called for the BAM 27 City Tour. "I hear Baraka saying, 'How come you didn't do it, Marvin?'" The Bible of the Black Arts Movement The Black...
View ArticleBlack Theatre Magazine #2: God is Black
Marvin X interviewed LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka, 1968 God is BlackChinese say God is the Chinese PeopleChicanos say La Raza La Raza La Raza Whites say God is WhiteNegroes say God is WhiteGod is...
View ArticleBlack Women Organized for Political Action
Dear Partner, BWOPA/TILE is excited to announce the recent unveiling of the Dezie Woods Jones (DWJ) Public Policy Fellowship program. The goal of this program is to support young leaders (16 - 30...
View ArticleHapi B Day, Dr. Clarke and Dr. Ben--two of our very best warrior scholars
I am forever thankful to have heard these brothers teach in Harlem during my first visit, 1968.--Marvin XNews You Can Use!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TONIGHT @ 6pm: Come Out And Join Us...
View ArticleBlack Arts Movement Tentative Program for 50th Anniversary Celebration at...
Black Arts Movement--WestCelebrating 50 yearsfocusing on Bay Area contributions to the Black Arts MovementIn honor of Amina and Amiri Baraka (RIP) Saturday, February 7, 201510am - 8pmDoors Open at...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: BAM Book Fair at Laney College, Sat., February 7
Black Bird Press News & Review: BAM Book Fair at Laney College, Sat., February 7
View ArticleComrade Paul Cobb Makes A Good Point: Who is an Artist?
Post News Group Publisher Paul Cobb and Poet/producer, playwright, essayist, educator, philosopher, activist Marvin X go back to childhood in West Oakland; they were probably in Cub Scouts together....
View ArticleBlack Arts Movement Tentative Program for 50th Anniversary Celebration at...
Black Arts Movement--WestCelebrating 50 yearsfocusing on Bay Area contributions to the Black Arts MovementIn honor of Amina and Amiri Baraka (RIP) Saturday, February 7, 201510am - 8pmDoors Open at...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Letter from Assata Shakur, Black Liberation...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Letter from Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Army Warrior Woman
View ArticleHistorian John Hope Franklin--From Slavery to Freedom
Ons John Hope Franklin, Historian and Author, was born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma January 2, 1915. John H. Franklin earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Fisk University in 1935 and his Master...
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