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Get your pre-publication copy, now of Beyond Religion, Toward Spirituality Essays on Consciousness
 

 

Books by Marvin X

Love and War: Poems  / In the Crazy House Called America / Woman: Man's Best Friend /  Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality

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Marvin X—born Marvin Ellis Jackmon on May 29, 1944 in Fowler, California—attended Fresno at Edison High, Oakland City College (now Merritt College) receiving an associate degree in 1964.  Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the founders of the Black Panther Party, were fellow students at Oakland City College. Marvin also received a BA and MA in English at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University). More

Chronology of Marvin X (El Muhajir )  Marvin X Bio   Bibliography of Marvin X  marvinxspeaks.blogspot.com/

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Up from Ignut Or Pull Yo Pants Up Fa da Black President:  The Soulful Musings of a North American African. By Marvin X. Black Bird Press / 1222 Dwight Way / Berkeley CA 94702 / Pre-publication price: $10.00

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Finding Aid to the Marvin X Papers, 1965-2006, bulk 1993-2006

The Marvin X Papers document the life and work of playwright, poet, essayist, and activist Marvin X during the nineties and the first decade of the 21st Century. The papers include correspondence; Marvin X's writings; materials related to the Recovery Theatre; works by his children and colleagues; and resource files. Correspondence includes letters, cards, and e-mails; correspondents include Amiri Baraka and other prominent African-American intellectuals. Marvin X's writings include notebooks, drafts, and manuscripts of poetry, novels, plays, essays, and planned anthologies. Documents from the Recovery Theatre include organizational and financial records and promotional material. Writings by others include essays, scripts, and academic papers by his three daughters. Resource files include academic articles, e-mails, flyers, news clippings and programs that contextualize and document Marvin X's involvement as an activist, intellectual, and literary figure in the African American community in the Bay Area in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Photographs include snapshots of family, friends, colleagues, and productions at the Recovery Theatre. Online Archive of California

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Essays

 

Am I Black, Am I White?

Baghdad by the Bay

Belafonte Whited Out In Oakland

Beloved Black Poet Determined to Fight New Jersey

Beyond Religion, Toward Spirituality (review)

 

Nature and Spirituality Language and Spirituality  Sectarianism and Spirituality  Ancestors and Spirituality   Love and Spirituality 

Death and Spirituality   Prison and Spirituality   Pimpin and Spirituality  Partner Violence and Spirituality  Global Violence and Spirituality     Technology and Spirituality  Street Violence and Spirituality  Rap and Spirituality    Future and Spirituality   Teacher and Spirituality    Myth and Spirituality  Toward A Radical Spirituality  Militant and Spirituality  

Black Bourgeoisie Defend 

Black Reconstruction Week Two

Black Reconstruction #7

Black Scholars in Crisis?   

Bridging the Racial Gap in Education

Colin Powell

The Complexity of Iraq

Death from the Loss of Desire

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Dr. Yusef Bey Transcends 

Farrakhan's Final Call

Farrakhan's Last Hurrah Come Out

Foreword to How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy (Nathan Hare)

The Green Revolution

How to Stop Killing

Islam Needs a Martin Luther 

Land of My Daughters

London Bridges Falling Down  (Responses) 

A Look inside Baraka's Toilet

Manifesto of The University of Poetry

Marvin X: A Critical Look at the Father of Muslim American Literature (planned book)

     Introduction  Dedication Contents The Contributors   Bibliography of Marvin X        Marvin X Gives Barefoot Lecture on Radical Spirituality

Marvin X and Fresno State University

The Meaning of Black Reconstruction

Muslim Imam Warithdin Muhammad Makes Transition

My Friend the Devil: Memoir

No Woman No Cry . . . For Phyllis Lee Moore

Negro Psychosexuality in the Post Crack Society

Nigguh Please

Oakland, Toward Radical Spirituality

Of Men Beast, Ancestors and Nature

Of Monks and Ministers

On Dr M’s Movement to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy

Open Letter to Dr. Hussein Shahristani

The Pain of Violence and Death In the Hood

Plato on Obama Drama

Poetic Mission: a Forum

The Politics of Life and Death (on Shani Baraka's death)

Preface to Letter from Curtis Muhammad

The Reactionary Negro

Report: BAM Conference

The San Francisco Anti-War March 

Thoughts on Jena & the Dirty South

Toward A Radical Spirituality  

Understanding London A Review of My Son The Fanatic

VIP Nigguhs and Rape

Welcome to Mexi-Cali Poem & Creative Essay

When Jazz Ain't Jazz (performance review)

Why I Talk with Cows  

Why We Hate Marvin X by Anonymous X

 

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ChickenBones Poetry Book 2005

Land of My Daughters 

Poems 1995-2005

by Marvin X

Reviewed by Rudolph Lewis

 

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Reviews

Africa or America  On Cecil Brown's Hey, Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department

Akeelah and the Bee (film)

America Is Still the Place (Charlie Walker)

Ayodele Nzinga Reviews Essays on Consciousness by Marvin X 

Barefoot Lecture

Beyond Religion toward Spirituality ( (Ayodele Nzinga review) 

Crazy House Called America  Crazy House Contents   Crazy House Introduction (Suzzette Celeste Johnson)

Gospel of the Game (Film directed by Rosebud Bitterdose)

How to Find and Keep A BMW (Book by Julia Hare)

Land of My Daughters (Review by Rudolph Lewis)

Maangamizi (the Ancient One) (film review)

Marvin X as Plato  

Marvin X Offers a Healing Peek into His Psyche  (Junious Ricardo Stanton)

My Son The Fanatic (film)

Nothing But the Truth, as Told by Marvin X (By Nathan Hare)

Protest of Artist as Revolutionary (film)

The Pursuit of Happyness (film review)

Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam

Somebody Blew Up America (By Amiri Baraka)

The Sisyphus Syndrome: A Jazz Opera (By Amiri Baraka)

Toward A Radical Spirituality

Marvin X Unplugged -- An Interview  (Lee Hubbard)

Wish I Could Tell You the Truth (Review by Rudolph Lewis)

Wounded in the House of A Friend  (Poems by Sonia Sanchez)

 

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Black Immigrants Deported

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The Claude McKay--Romare Bearden 

Diary of Zena al Khalil

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Duet for The Godfather (Wordslanger) 

Fifty Influential Figures

Glide Memorial United Methodist Church

The Ground on Which I Stand 

Haki Madhubuti 

The Image of the Black Criminal

Larry Neal Bio

Larry Neal Chronology

Larry Neal Interview in Omowe 

Larry Neal Speaks 

Message from Amiri Baraka 

Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance 

New Negro Poets U.S.A. (Hughes)

The Poetry of Don L. Lee  

The Problem of "Settling"

Report: HU BAM Conference (Marvin X)

Response to Shaquille O’Neal 

The Revolutionary Theatre 

Somebody Blew Up America (poem)

Status and Standard Language

Tenderloin Report

Toward a Feminist Theology

To White Women Who Think     

White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron

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Marvin X has given permission to Harvard University to publish his poem "For El Haji Rasul Taifa" from Love and War: Poems by Marvin X (1995). The poem will appear in The Encyclopedia of Islam in America Volume II, Greenwood Press, edited by Dr. Jocelyne Cesari of Harvard's Islam in the West Program. Mr. X is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Muslim American Literature, University of Arkansas Press, edited by Dr. Mojah Khaf. He is also in the forthcoming Muslim American Drama, Temple University.

The Works of Marvin X    Other Works By Marvin X    

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Books  available from

 Black Bird Press, POB1317, Paradise CA 95967 or

De Lauer’s News, 1310 Broadway at 14th, Oakland

To book Dr. M for speaking and readings, call 510-355-6339

mrvnx@yahoo.com / www.marvinxwrites.blogspot.com

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How to order

BLACK BIRD PRESS, 11132 NELSON BAR ROAD / CHEROKEE CA 95965 / 510-472-9589,  mrvnx@YAHOO.COM

HOW TO SEND FOR THE WORKS OF MARVIN X POET/ESSAYIST/ ACTIVIST

Books  Available:

In the Crazy House Called America, essays, 2002, $19.95.

Land of My Daughters, poems, 2005, $19.95.

Wish I Could Tell You the Truth, essays, 2005, $19.95.

Audio/Videos Now Available:

Wish I, reading/interview with Marvin X by Pam Pam of KPOO Radio, SF., 2CD, 2005, $19.95.

Marvin X Live in the Fillmore, Rass’ellas Jazz Club, San Francisco, DVD, a reading, filmed by Ken Johnson, produced by Nisa Islam, 2005, $19.95.

Get Yo Mind Right, documentary of Marvin X’s Barber Shop Talks, 2005, a PamPam/Marvin X production, DVD, $19.95.

Love and War, poems by Marvin X, CD, 2000, $19.95.

Live in Philly at Warm Daddies, DVD, Marvin X accompanied by Elliot Bey, keyboards, Rufas Harley, bagpipes, Danny Thompson, flute, Marshall Allen, alto sax, Ancestor Goldsky, djembe, Alexander El, drums, 2002, $19.95.

Marvin X Live at the Berkeley Black Repertory Theatre, accompanied by Destiny, harpist, Tarika Lewis, violinist, Tacuma, percussion, Kele Nitoto, percussion, Raynetta Rayzetta, dancer/choreographer, DVD, $19.95.

How To Order:

Send check/money order to Black Bird Press, 11132 Nelson Bar Road, Cherokee CA 95965. Add $5.00 for priority mailing and handling.  All mail orders get 50% discount. For booking call 510-472-9589.

Black Bird Press is an imprint of the Marian M. Jackmon Foundation.

The Mission of the Marian M. Jackmon Foundation is to preserve and disseminate the writings of Marvin X. Also, to establish grants and scholarships for men and women entrepreneurs of spiritual consciousness. Feel free to make a generous donation to the Marian M. Jackmon Foundation. Your donation can be tax deductible.

Marian M. Jackmon Foundation, P.O. Box 1317, Paradise CA 95967. Call 510-472-9589 / mrvnx@yahoo.com

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Eldridge Cleaver: My Friend the Devil

A Memoir by Marvin X

Coming soon

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update 22 October 2007 / updated 3 April 2008

 

 

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