The Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra

The Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra. Eastside Arts has pledged $1,000.00 for the 27 City BAM tour. Mr. and Mrs. Ovis Collins pledge $1,000.00; Pamela Young-King pledges $1,000.00. If you support the BAM Tour, submit your name and pledge amount. Call

510-200-4164; email jmarvinx@yahoo.com

The Malcolm X Jazz Festival presents Marvin X and the BAM poet's choir & Arkestra, May 17, Oakland

Marvin X and Black Arts Movement's father of music, Sun Ra, who called his band the Arkestra.

The Malcolm X Jazz Festival is proud to announce the lineup for this year's festival will present Howard Wiley, Faye Carol, The Last Poets and Marvin X with the Black Arts Movement Poet's choir and Arkestra, including percussionist Tacuma King, violinist Tarika Lewis, Zena Allen on Kora. Poets include Ayodele Nzinga, Aries Jordan, Ginny Lim and Juan Felipe Herrera, et al.

This year's event is in honor of Black Arts Movement founder Amiri Baraka. Sponsored by Eastside Arts Cultural Center, the date is Saturday, May 17, Noon until 6pm. and San Antonio Park, Foothill and East 19th Street, Oakland. Free event.

The Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra. Eastside Arts has pledged $1,000.00 for the 27 City BAM tour. Mr. and Mrs. Ovis Collins pledge $1,000.00; Pamela Young-King pledges $1,000.00. If you support the BAM Tour, submit your name and pledge amount. Call

510-200-4164; email jmarvinx@yahoo.com

First USA Statue of Liberty was a Black Woman

 

 

The first Statue of Liberty given to the US by France was a Black woman that the US turned down so France replaced that one with the version currently in New York harbor. This Black Lady Liberty also made by France is found on the Island of St. Martin. 

French historian Edouard de Laboulaye, chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society, together with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, proposed to... the French government that the people of France should present the United States – through the American Abolitionist Society – the gift of a Statue of Liberty in recognition of the Black soldiers who won the Civil War in the United States, earning themselves their freedom. It was widely known then that it was Black soldiers who played the pivotal role in winning the war, and this gift was supposed to be a tribute to their prowess.

When the statue was presented to the U.S. Minister to France in 1884, it was rejected on the notion that the dominant view of the broken shackles would be offensive to a defeated U.S. South, who despised their former captives and would not want to be faced with a constant reminder of Blacks winning their freedom.

Artists for Ras Baraka

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Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X in Philly for Mumia Abu's 60th Birthday--We love you, Mumia, Ona Move!

Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X in Philly for Mumia Abu's 60th Birthday--We love you, Mumia, Ona Move!

Marvin X 70 poem

Down in da country
down by da grape vine
got ma wine and ma woman
and I'm doin just fine

got love in da country
got honest people too
got love in da country
honest people too

Ain't like in da city
ain't no city blue

Got good food in da country
fill ya up real nice
Got good food in da country
fill ya up real nice

food, wine and woman
nigguh doin just right
down in da country
might spend da night

hear da birds in da mornin'
just fo da break of day
hear da birds in da morning
just fo da break of day

dat's why I love da country
like to hear what da birds
got ta say!
dat's why I love da country
like to hear what da birds
got ta say

birds up early in da mornin'
tryin ta make dey way
up early in da mornin'
tryin ta make dey way.

wish somebody would hear me
wish somebody say hey!

Just a country boy
escaping city life
just a country boy
escaping city life

wanna have some fun
plus I'm lookin fa a wife.

Come here country girl
you so nice so sweet
come here country girl
you so nice so sweet

just like a plum
nice enough ta eat.

--Marvin X
4/12/14

Long live revolutionary black nationalism! Long live Marcus Garvey.

One God, One Aim One Destiny
Africa for Africans
Those at home
those abroad
Up you mighty people
you can accomplish what you will
Look for me in the whirlwind
I shall be there to comfort you
rest on my shoulders when tired
I urge you forward
waving the red, black and green
for the blood
for the people
for the land

Get organized!
the world is moving against all unorganized people!