Black Bird Press News & Review: Parable of the Black Bourgeoisie
Black Bird Press News & Review: Parable of the Black Bourgeoisie: The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apenmanship and...
View ArticleParable of a happy dope fiend and Dope Man Blues by Marvin X
In memory of RickRick was a happy dope fiend. He loved shooting dope in the Tenderloin of San Francisco, though he used to shoot dope in the Fillmore, but that was in the old days when the Fillmore was...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: P-SPAN #413: Panel on Black Women Writers, at...
Black Bird Press News & Review: P-SPAN #413: Panel on Black Women Writers, at Laney College
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Video: Cornel West on The Black Arts Movement...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Video: Cornel West on The Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour
View ArticleNovelist Toni Morrison on White Supremacy
Acclaimed novelist Toni Morrison, while promoting her new novel God Help the Child, proved that she’s certainly not insulated from the racial climate in America. Morrison has often written about race,...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Notes on Yemen: Crusaders, Zionists, Sunnis,...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Notes on Yemen: Crusaders, Zionists, Sunnis, Shiites
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago celebrates Sun Ra's 100 birthday
Why Sun Ra Is Dominating Chicago’s Culture SceneThe father of Afrofuturism and onetime local is having a big influence on six artists’ upcoming projects. What gives?By Matthew HendricksonPublished...
View ArticleMumia Abu Jamal Health Update
FacebookTwitterWebsitePrison refuses Mumia Medical CareHiMarvin, Mumia is still in medical danger. He is weak, in the infirmary, and still needs a wheelchair to come out to visits. In a phone call on...
View ArticleThe Viet Cong Never Called Me a Nigguh!
"I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The VietCong... No VietCong Ever Called Me Nigger"— Muhammad Ali, 1966On August 23, 1966, Muhammad Ali embarked on the biggest "fight" of his life when he applied with the...
View ArticleAppeal to support Black Panther Party Documentary by Stanley Nelson
Dear unknown,One of the most memorable interviews from THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION came from Wayne Pharr, a founding member of the LA chapter of the Black Panther Party. He passed...
View ArticleIn Defense of Cornel West--Has Michael Eric Dyson Lost His Mind?
In Defense of Cornel West: Is Barack Obama Right, or Has Michael Eric Dyson Lost His Mind?Carl Dix with Cornel West at a recent anti-police terror march.By Carl Dix and Lenny WolffApril 22, 2015 |...
View ArticleDraft: Notes on Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters, and Stanley Nelson's...
Black Panther Party Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas, and Black Arts Movement co-founder Marvin X at screening of Stanley Nelson's Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,at the San Francisco...
View ArticleToward the final solution to the Police Problem in the USA
The simple solution is for the occupying army of policemen to depart from the oppressed sectors of North American African communities coast to coast, as well as depart from other oppressed peoples...
View ArticleBlack Bird Press News & Review: Toward the final solution to the Police...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Toward the final solution to the Police Problem in the USAMarvin X and Fahizah Alim, Queen Mother of Sacremdnto
View ArticleMarvin X at University of Chicago Conference on Black Arts Movement Master...
Marvin X and Sun Ra at Marvin's Black Educational Theatre, San Francisco, CA 1972. Sun Ra arranged the musical version of Marvin's Flowers for the Trashman, retitled Take Care of Business. Both also...
View ArticleMarvin X's Ten Points for Survival in the Streets of Babylon, USA
Ten Points for Youth Survival in the Street Marvin X at his Academy of da Corner,14th and Broadway, Oakland, with one of his top students,brother Jermaine Cash. Author Ishmael Reed says, " Don't spend...
View ArticleNotes on Slave Narratives from Marvin X's Academy of da Corner
Young brothers at Marvin X's Academy of da Corner, reading the Oakland Post Newspaperphoto by Gene Hazzard Marvin X and son of Chicago's BPP Chairman, Fred Hampton, murdered in a police shootout.Black...
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