P-SPAN #413: Panel on Black Women Writers, at Laney College
The Black Arts Movement Women Speak at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Black Arts Movement, Laney College, Oakland CA, Feb. 7, 2015Â Marvin X will speak on Racism at Berkeley High School Tuesday...
View ArticleMumia Abu Jamal Medical Update
UPDATE: Yesterday morning, March 30, Mumia Abu-Jamal was rushed to the hospital after passing out at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Mahanoy. He was admitted to the Schuylkill Medical Center with...
View Article4/1 update on Mumia Abu Jam
4/1 update Dateline: Intensive Care Unit Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, PAMumia Abu-Jamal in Medical CrisisHere is an excerpt from the hospital press conference yesterday:Mumia's wife and...
View ArticleCommon banned from speaking at university for song about Assata Shakur
The rapper Common is not the most racially controversial artist in America.  In fact, some say he’s relatively mild mannered.  But even one old song about Assata Shakur is enough to brew racial...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: TOUR SCHEDULE OF THE WILD CRAZY RIDE CALLED...
Black Bird Press News & Review: TOUR SCHEDULE OF THE WILD CRAZY RIDE CALLED THE MARVIN X EXPERIENCEWhy not Invite Marvin X to a venue in your town? You won't be disappointed, although you are...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: SOS--CALLING ALL BLACK PEOPLE: A BLACK ARTS...
Black Bird Press News & Review: SOS--CALLING ALL BLACK PEOPLE: A BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT READER: Many of the movement’s leading artists, including Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki...
View ArticleGoin ta Chicago, but can't take you: Marvin X--High voltage electricity!
Chicago musician/scholar David Boykin invited Marvin X to participate in the Sun Ra Conference at the University of Chicago, May 22, 2015, Sun Ra's birthday, although he claimed infinity and eternity....
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Goin ta Chicago, but can't take you: Marvin...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Goin ta Chicago, but can't take you: Marvin X--High voltage electricity!Chicago musician/scholar David Boykin invited Marvin X to participate in the Sun Ra...
View ArticlePlease help secure Marvin X at the Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway,...
Marvin X teaches in the most dangerous classroom in the world! Literally, his classroom is the where the Oscar Grant Rebellion took place; Occupy Oakland and all other liberation struggles, including I...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Goin ta Chicago, but can't take you: Marvin...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Goin ta Chicago, but can't take you: Marvin X--High voltage electricity!: Let the opportunists do their mission of taking advantage of the cultural revolution. But...
View ArticlePrayers for the Black Arts Movement Success of BAM 27 City Tour
Members of the BAM Poet's Choir and Arkestra informed producer Marvin X they are in prayer for the success in acquiring the funding needed for the 27 City Tour prescribed by Ancestor Amiri Baraka. It...
View ArticleThe Black Students Union at San Francisco State University started it all!
 Black Students Union leaders at San Francisco State University, Jerry Varnado and Jimmy GarrettThe Black Student Union at San Francisco State University was the first at any school anywhere. Its...
View ArticleDemocracy in Nigeria: Gen. Buhari wins, Badluck befalls loser but he accepts...
Opposition candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, center, arrives to validate his voting card using a fingerprint reader, prior to casting his vote later in the day, in his home town of Daura, Nigeria...
View ArticleMumia's wife, Wadiya: Stop trying to kill my husband, free him now!
  It’s Time to Stop Trying to Kill My Husband and Free Him Now!! Mumia and Wadiya, February 6, 2012Wadiya Jamal, April 5, 2015 Enough is enough!!! Today is my birthday. April 24 is Mumia’s 61st...
View ArticleNow booking the Wild Crazy Ride Called the Marvin X Experience, raw, uncut,...
Syrian poet/professor/novelist Dr. Mohja Kahf proclaims Marvin X is the Father of Muslim American literature, along with other BAM poets Sonia Sanchez, Askia Muhammad Toure, Amiri Baraka, et al.Bob...
View ArticleDr. Ron Daniels on the Reparations Movement
Queen Mother Audley Moore was an indefatigable teacher, advocate and organizer for Reparations, the fundamental idea that Africans in America are due compensation to repair the physical, cultural,...
View ArticlePoem for Lady Day @ 100: Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
For you Lady Day @ 100Queen of the Blues Black Classic soundStrange Fruit hangin above the groundBlack lives Matter then and nowwe love the songs you gavethey handcuffed you to yr bedon the way to your...
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