Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X Now Available for Bookings for Black History Month, 2014

Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X Now Available for Bookings for Black History Month, 2014



Marvin X has been teaching for a long time. He has established his tenacity. As one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement (BAM), he became a teacher in an emerging field called Black Studies. Like Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Askia Toure and others, Marvin X both contributed to and later taught those pivotal courses that constituted a new discipline.

For the last thirty years, this gifted poet, journalist, dramatist, oral historian (he appears to be the only participant in the Black Arts Movement that conducted intensive and extensive oral interviews with the key participants, as well as international political, cultural and educational leaders)and teacher, has established an unusual record. Marvin X has taught at the University of California at San Diego, Mills College, San Francisco State University, Fresno State University,
Laney and Merritt Colleges in Oakland, University of Nevada,Reno, and the University of California at Berkeley.--James G. Spady, Philadelphia PA

Today Marvin X conducts his method of teaching at Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland--the most dangerous classroom in the world! Call for an appointment with Doctor M. 510-200-4164

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