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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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Update

Report: Dr. J. Vern Cromartie at Exhibit Marvin X—‏On Saturday, February 11, 2012, poet/sociologist Dr. J. Vern Cromartie presented a lecture/reading at Exhibit Marvin X. He gave a summary of the paper he presented on Marvin X's brief tenure as a lecturer in black studies at University of California, Berkeley, noting the poet taught there with only an A.A. degree from Merritt College. Along with the black studies faculty, Marvin was purged by the administration and more pliant Negroes were hired. Dr. Cromartie recalled Cecil Brown's book What Happened to My Black Studies Department? to suggest an even more sinister move wherein blacks are brought in from the Pan African Diaspora and given tenure because they are even more accommodating to white supremacy academia, the local radical academics being regarded as dangerous to the status quo.

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Journal of Pan African Studies is OnlineVolume 4 • Number 2 • 2010

We humbly dedicate this poetry issue of the Journal of Pan African Studies (JPAS) to theHonorable Jose Goncalves, publisher and editor of the Journal of Black Poetry (JBP), the poetic Bible of the 60s Black Liberation/Black Arts Movement. No other journal in the history of American literature published so many poets. No other journal was more eclectic and democratic in its editorial policy. We thank Rudolph Lewis (a virtual reincarnation of Goncalves in his dedication to black literature in the electronic age) for compiling this summary of the work of Dingane and the Journal of Black Poetry. One day soon we plan to honor Dingane with a Journal of Black Poetry Festival.BlackBirdPressNews

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Marvin X Jet (video)

Marvin X Exhibits Personal Archives of Black Arts Movement at Berkeley Juneteenth, Sunday, June 26‏

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Essays

 

Am I Black, Am I White?

Amiri Baraka and Marvin X Rock UC Berkeley Poetry Reading

Baghdad by the Bay

Barbara Boxer: In Search of My Soul Sister

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 * Toward A Radical Spirituality  Militant 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 

 

Black Bourgeoisie Defend 

Black Reconstruction Week Two

Black Reconstruction #7

Black Scholars in Crisis?   

Bridging the Racial Gap in Education

Colin Powell

Cornel West As Angry Black Man (book review)

The Complexity of Iraq

Death from the Loss of Desire *

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Dr. Yusef Bey Transcends

The Education of Jah Amiel

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

Imagine A Black Nation

Islam Needs a Martin Luther 

The Journal of Pan African Studies

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

Marvin X Speaks at San Francisco State

The Meaning of Black Reconstruction

Muslim Imam Warithdin Muhammad Makes Transition

My Friend the Devil: Memoir

Mythology of Pussy and Dick

No Woman No Cry . . . For Phyllis Lee Moore

Negro Psychosexuality in the Post Crack Society

Nigguh Please

Oakland, Toward Radical Spirituality (on Lovelle Mixon and Oscar Grant)

Of Men Beast, Ancestors and Nature

Of Monks and Ministers

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

On the Death of Osama bin Laden

Open Letter to Dr. Hussein Shahristani

Oscar Grant articles-- Oakland, Toward Radical Spirituality  /  Parable of July 4, 1910

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  

Toward A Reader's Theatre

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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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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Parable of the Man Who Left the Mountain / Meaning of Black Reconstruction  /   Negro Psychosexuality  / Parable of King Tut

 

The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables / Fables

By Marvin X

Book Release Party for Marvin X / Saturday, May 15, 2pm

There will be a reading and book signing for Marvin X's / The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/Fables / African American Library/Museum, / 14th and Martin Luther King, Jr., / Downtown Oakland / For more information contact Veda Silva, Museum Project Coordinator, 510-637-0199.  Book price $100.00 / 309 pages / If you can't make the party, the book is available from: Black Bird Press / 1222 Dwight Way, Berkeley CA 94702 . Marvin X will be / accompanied by Rashidah Sabreen on vocals and guitar. If you missed them on KPFA, go to the archives at www.kpfa.org, transitions in tradition, this past Monday. Refreshments by GET JERKED! Please support one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement.

Advance the cultural revolution!

Parables and Fables of Marvin X  / The Education of Jah Amiel  / My Friend the Devil  / Marvin X  Celebrates His 65th Birthday

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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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The university of poetry is now academy of the corner, a multi-purpose free speech zone/free thought space, micro-credit bank/mental health peer group. Presently located at 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland and online at: www.academyofdacorner.blogspot.com  and www.marvinxoneducation.blogspot.com   and www.parablesandfablesofmarvinx.blogspot.com  

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 After dark, mobs form, smash windows, loot  / The right verdict in Mehserle case

Parable of July 4, 1910

By  Marvin X

Obama may take the final punch for Jack Johnson  / What To The Slave Is 4th of July?

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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

 

A Fictional Interview with President Barack Obama

Interview with Ed Bullins

 

Poems

A Drunkard in Denial  

At Fitnah

Baghdad By the Bay: The Surge Is Working

How To Love A Thinking Man (poem) *

How to Love a Thinking Woman (poem) *

I Thought (poem)

The News Ain't News

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

Journal of Pan African Studies is Online (Edited by Marvin X)

Parables and Fables

The Education of Jah Amiel

Parable of Jazz

Parable of July 4, 1910

Parable of King Tut

Parable of the General as a Rolling Stone

Parable of the Man Who Left the Mountain

Parable of the Religious Haters

Parable of the Return of Gov. Moonbeam

Parable of the San Francisco Negro, Part 2

Parable of Zionism and National Insanity

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Parable of Purple—In Oakland, we grew up playing the dozens, rapping about another brother's mother, trying to "cap" or best the brother in desecrating our sacred Mother Goddess. The winner said the most hurtful things, and yes, the contest often ended with a fight because the loser felt ashamed and humiliated. The hip hop generation has upped the game. On a recent Monday night, half a block from Academy of Da Corner at 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland, two young men had a rap contest on the street while a large crowd listened attentively. When Craig, aka Purple, won the contest, the loser, Mike, felt humiliated and ashamed, especially because Purple had rapped about catching Mike in a homosexual encounter. Amiri Baraka's 60s play The Toilet dealt with a similar encounter. According to reports, Mike fired off two rounds into the ground and urged Purple to shut up, but Purple persisted, claiming he had the power of the Logos. He continued slamming Mike with crowd approval. Mike aimed his gun at Purple's chest and fired twice. "Told you to shut up, nigguh. Told you to shut up!" Purple stumbled into De Lauer's bookstore next door and fell dead. There must be some significance to his dying in a bookstore, a place of light in a world of darkness. Such is life: sometimes we win only to lose.—Marvin X–9/11/10

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My Friend the Devil

A Memoir of My Association With Eldridge Cleaver

By Marvin X

Marvin X  Celebrates His 65th Birthday On May 29, 2009 /  contact:  j_vern_cromartie@yahoo.com

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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) 

Bobby Mcferrin's  Beyond Words

Gospel of the Game (Film directed by Rosebud Bitterdose)

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

In The Crazy House Called America 

              Crazy House Contents   Crazy House Introduction (Suzzette Celeste Johnson)

Land of My Daughters (Review by Rudolph Lewis)

Lumumba (a film by Raoul peck)

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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Askia Muhammad Touré 

 

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Related files:  Duet for The Godfather (Wordslanger)  Blessings Are Due  (Ayodele Nzinga)  Leonard Peltier: Letter to a Relative  Beyond Religion toward Spirituality

 

BAM Conference at Howard Boycotted

A BAM Roll Call (Baraka) 

Black Art

Black Arts Movement (Kalamu) 

The Neal  (Larry Neal) 

Black Immigrants Deported

Black Poetry 1965-2000 

The Black Poets (Dudley Randall) 

 Blessings Are Due  (Ayodele Nzinga) 

The Claude McKay--Romare Bearden 

Diary of Zena al Khalil

Don’t Say Goodbye to the Pork Pie Hat 

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 

Marvin X on the Streets (Daniel King)

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 (Baraka poem)

Status and Standard Language

Teaching Diaspora Literature

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 of My Association With Eldridge Cleaver

By Marvin X

How to Order

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

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Reading Africana

Jamaica Upheaval by Lloyd D. McCarthy 

Definition of Negro 1910-1911 (Asa G. Hilliard III)

Parable of Zionism and National Insanity

Toward A Reader's Theatre  / Parable of the Religious Haters 

Bobby Mcferrin's "Beyond Words"  / Imagine A Black Nation

Fifty Years Ago  (Chuck Siler )

Framework for African Students (Biblio) / Charles E. Siler Bio  / Gnarlins '07 

Chuck Siler Response to Katrina  / Holiday Cards

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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

By  Howard Dodson

Always on the move, resourceful, and creative, men and women of African origin have been risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment. Their survival skills, efficient networks, and dynamic culture have enabled them to thrive and spread, and to be at the very core of the settling and development of the Americas. Their migrations have changed not only their world, and the fabric of the African Diaspora but also their nation and the Western Hemisphere.
Between 1492 and 1776, an estimated 6.5 million people migrated to the Americas. More than 5 out of 6 were Africans. The major colonial labor force, they laid the economic and cultural foundations of the continents. Their migrations continued during and after slavery. In the United States alone, 6.5 million African Americans left the South for northern and western cities between 1916 and 1970. With this internal Great Migration, the most massive in the history of the country, African Americans stopped being a southern, rural community to become a national, urban population.

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The Warmth of Other Suns

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

By Isabel Wilkerson

Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper's wife, left Mississippi for Milwaukee in 1937, after her cousin was falsely accused of stealing a white man's turkeys and was almost beaten to death. In 1945, George Swanson Starling, a citrus picker, fled Florida for Harlem after learning of the grove owners' plans to give him a "necktie party" (a lynching). Robert Joseph Pershing Foster made his trek from Louisiana to California in 1953, embittered by "the absurdity that he was doing surgery for the United States Army and couldn't operate in his own home town." Anchored to these three stories is Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wilkerson's magnificent, extensively researched study of the "great migration," the exodus of six million black Southerners out of the terror of Jim Crow to an "uncertain existence" in the North and Midwest. Wilkerson deftly incorporates sociological and historical studies into the novelistic narratives of Gladney, Starling, and Pershing settling in new lands, building anew, and often finding that they have not left racism behind.

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The White Masters of the World

From The World and Africa, 1965

By W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization (Fletcher)

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