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My African Queen wants to be a Negro
North American African Queens on the Black Arts Movement panel at Laney College, Oakland, Feb 7, 2015: Elaine Brown, Dr. Halifu Osumare, Judy Juanita, Portia Anderson, Kujuchaulia, Aries Jordan;...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up
July 15, 2015- newyorker.com Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking UpByBrit BennettCoates’s “Between the World and Me” is written as an open letter to his teen-age son.Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN...
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The Y.E.S. event
Deborah Day, Laney College President Dr. Elnora T. Webb, Almaz Yihdego, Marvin X at Y.E.S. eventThe Y.E.S. (Youth Empowerment Services, an after school program in the planning stages) event was not...
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Sandra Bland failed the Tone Test
Our beloved Sista Sandra Bland failed the tone test when stopped by the Texas Ranger. Based on one's tone of voice when stopped by the police, one can be killed, arrested or released. The Oakland CA...
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PEN Oakland Honors Marvin X with Lifetime Achievement Award
Marvin X in a Chicago recording studio, May, 2015PEN Oakland has informed Marvin X he will be the recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Awardat the annual ceremony in December at the Rockridge...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: The Y.E.S. event
Black Bird Press News & Review: The Y.E.S. event
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'Oldest' Qur'an fragments found in Birmingham University archives
'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham UniversityBy Sean CoughlanEducation correspondent22 July 2015 Download Flash Player nowYou need to install Flash Player to play this content.Media...
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From the Archives of the Black Arts Movement: Harlem's New Lafayette Theatre...
Playwright Ed Bullins Actor Gary Bolling Actor Dr. Bill Lathan The New Lafayette Theatre family in Mt. Morris Park, aka Marcus Garvey Park Director Robert Macbeth Actress Helen Ellis Actor George...
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Sistsa Sandra Bland failed the Tone Test in Texas
Sandra Bland’s death causes questionsOur beloved Sista Sandra Bland failed the tone test when stopped by the Texas Ranger. Based on one's tone of voice when stopped by the police, one can be killed,...
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Wash. DC Jazz Network "Book of the Year"--Autobiography of Jimmy Heath "I...
Washington DC Jazz Network "Book of the Year" Autobiography of NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath "I Walked With Giants" Available On Line & Book Stores!Jimmy Heath and Joseph McLaren, foreword by Bill...
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X Tribute sponsored The Oakland Post,...
Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X Tribute sponsored The Oakland Post, show #1Please go to link to see video.Chauncey Bailey: The Cross and the Lynching TreePosted January 16, 2008 By Marvin...
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Ishmael Reed's The Complete Muhammad Ali: Chapter 30, Interview with Marvin X
Marvin X at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oaklandphoto Adam TurnerIf you want motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to workshops and seminars, just go...
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Dr. Hussain Shahristani: Marvin X's Islamic and Arabic teacher during his...
Dr. Hussain al-Shahristani was among the many people Marvin X met in Toronto, Canada during his first exile from America as a resister to the Vietnam War, 1967. Along with comrade in exile Norman Otis...
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Black Gold anthology Editor JA A. Jahannes has joined the ancestors, RIP
Last night we were informed by the .wife of JA A. Jahannes that he has joined the ancestors. Surely we are from Allah and to Him we return. Peace and love to his family--Marvin X Black Gold: an...
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Students meet Plato Negro at Oakland's Black Expo, Frank Ogawa Plaza,...
MX and Rashad WileySeveral students met Marvin X today at Oakland's Black Expo at Frank Ogawa Plaza, aka Oscar Grant Plaza. But Marvin is growing weary of mentoring because students want to tell him...
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Dr. Nathan Hare Needs Your Help today!
Yesterday Terry Collins and I visited Nathan at his office. It was a pleasure to be in the presence of true genius; he talked and we listened and learned, continuing education.As you know Julia is...
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Black Think Tank Books, Black Bird Press form partnership to distribute the...
Marvin X, Dr. Julia Hare, Dr. Nathan Hare, Attorney Amira JackmonBlack Bird Press is now distributing Black Think Tank Books. BBP Publisher Marvin X says, "We are honored to enter a partnership with...
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The works of Marvin X now available from Black Bird Press
Titles by Marvin X currently available from Black Bird Press$19.95 I welcome reading the work of a "grassroots guerilla publicist" who is concerned with the psychological/intellectual freedom of his...
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Is Burn, Baby, Burn, Marvin X's Greatest poem, written shortly after the...
Burn, Baby, BurnTired.Sick an' tiredTired of beingsick an' tired.Lost.Lost in the wildernessof white americaare the masses asses?cool.said the master to the slave,"No problem, don't rob an' steal,I'll...
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