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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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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)

 

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

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

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

The Meaning of Black Reconstruction

No Woman No Cry . . . For Phyllis Lee Moore

Negro Psychosexuality in the Post Crack Society

Nigguh Please

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

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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Interview

 

Interview with Ed Bullins

 

Poems

A Drunkard in Denial  

At Fitnah

How To Love A Thinking Man (poem)

How to Love a Thinking Woman (poem)

I Thought (poem)

The News Ain't News

PALESTINE 

Remembering Shani Baraka  When Parents Bury Children

The Surge Is Working

Tom Feelings  

We're in Love, But You Don't Know Me

What if there was no God but God

When I Think About the Women in My Life 

Where's Fats Domino

White Power

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Promotions

 

Barefoot Lecture on Radical Spirituality History and Spirituality

Book & Screening Tour

Boy Steals Show At Marvin X Concert  

Book Tour 2002

Book Tour Report 2005 

FIVE BOOKS BY MARVIN X

Holiday Discount: FOUR BOOKS BY MARVIN X

Marvin X Reports on East Coast Tour, 2007

Marvin X Returns to the Fillmore

Marvin X Rocks Crowd At Oakland's Malcolm X Jazz Festival

Marvin X Show Coming Home

Notes on the Journal of Black Poetry Festival

Reports on East Coast Tour

The Tenderloin Book Fair 

 

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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 Nzina 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)

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 inn the House of A Friend  (Poems by Sonia Sanchez)

 

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Fifty Influential Figures

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The Ground on Which I Stand 

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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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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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update 22 October 2007 / updated 3 April 2008

 

 

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