Academy of da Corner, Marvin X's Street Ministry

Academy of da Corner, Marvin X's Street Ministry, 14th and Broadway


Oakland CA











Plato Negro, Jackson, Aristotle Negro


photo Walter Riley, esq.


4/26/11

Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland.

--Ishmael Reed

Comments from da corner





Fuck you, Marvin X, a Negro





I might come by here and throw a molotov cocktail at you!


--a journalist





No writer writes about the street like you.


--Walter Riley





Some people don't like you. I tell them to look at the good you are doing.


--a brother





Fuck the peckerwood, fuck the peckerwood, fuck the peckerwood!


--a brother whispered in MX's ear and kept going





Can you talk to my daughter. She needs help. She's cute, got two babies, but goes out with men and come home with no money for Pampers. What's wrong with that girl?


--a Mother