Marvin Exditorial

Essays By Marvin X

"He walked through the muck and mire of hell

and came out clean as white fish and black as coal"

Contents

Reviews Healing Peek Review Other Crazy Reviews Marvin X Unplugged -- An Interview

Part One: A Beautiful Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Lose

3	Manic Oppression and the Suicide of My Son
7	A Beautiful Mind
11	In the Crazy House of the Negro
17	Are Christians Crazy?
22	The Psycholinguistic Crisis of the North American Africans
30	Insanity of Sex
33	Artists as Crack Heads
34	Drama as Therapeutic Education

Part Two: Ranting in the Wilderness

41	Blacks Losing Clout in San Francisco
42	63% of Black 4th Graders Can't Read
43	Free Speech
44	Davey D -- Revolutionary Rain
47	Julian Richardson
49	Dr. Khalid Muhammad
50	Light in A Cell -- Imam Jamil Al Amin (H. Rap Brown)
52	Happy Birthday, Amiri Baraka, toward a United Front
55	Farrakhan
59	Malcolm X
61	Malcolm and Betty
63	Notes on the Pan African Revolution
64	Afro-Mexico
64	What Happened to My Black Family
68	The Maid, The Ho', The Cook
71	John Eleven
72	Dear Son
73	On Addiction and Children

Part Three: Butt Naked at Venice Beach: Reviews

79	Beyond Words
83	Love Song for Angie Stone
85	Training Day
87	A Huey Newton Story
90	Hip Hop, The New World Order
92	Ali
101	Baby Boy
106	Babylon Brooklyn
108	Traffic
113	The Green Mile
115	Eastside
117	Bilalian
121	Lumumba
125	Fidel
128	As an Act of Protest
131	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom or Back That Ass Up

Part Four: 9/11

137	Powell as Dove
138	Who Is the World's Greatest Terrorist?
141	Held at Gunpoint
143	Beyond Bin Laden
145	Wanted: One Hundred Black Murderers
146	Elijah as Mythologist
149	Africa and the Islamic Revolution
151	I Support the PLO but Not in the Ghetto
152	Lawrence of Arabia
154	My Son the Fanatic
157	Religion and Revolution
161	Voodoo Is a Democratic Society

Part Five: Final Ranting

165	Neo-Colonial Negro Intellectuals
167	J. California Cooper
168	Dr. Cornel West at U.C. Berkeley
169	Two Black Birds in the White House
170	Black Panther Elaine Brown
172	Back in the Day, That Poetry Reading
173	Breakfast with Poetess Sonia Sanchez
177	Recovery Ranch: A Dream Deferred
180	Let There be Peace in the Hood
181	Abstract for a Young Men's Workshop
183	Abstract for a Council of Elders
186	AIDS and the Death of Friends
190	The Brother
192	Anger Management during the Holidays and Every Day
195	Hunger in America
197	Hey, Got a Cigarette?
198	Call for a General Strike
200	Parable of Black Man and Block Man

	Other Works By Marvin X