Sunday, November 9, 2014

Black Bird Press reprints: I AM OSCAR GRANT and PULL YO PANTS UP

Marvin X: Eight Books in 2010

Man, Marvin X writes a book a month!--Abiodun of the Last Poets

 
If you want to learn about inspiration and motivation, don't spend all that money going to workshops and seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland.--Ishmael Reed





Hustler’s Guide to the Game Called Life, (Wisdom of Plato Negro, Volume II)









 
Mythology of Pussy and Dick

 Toward Healthy Psychosocial Sexuality, 416 pages.
This book is the most wanted title in the Marvin X collection as an 18 page pamphlet.
Youth in the hood fight over it and steal it from each other. Girls say it empowers them, and the boys say it helps them step up their game. Mothers and fathers are demanding their sons and daughters read this. Paradise Jah Love says they fight over it as if it's black gold!This expanded version is not yet available.

Just reprinted, now available
I Am Oscar Grant, essays on Oakland, $19.95.





Critical essays on the travesty of American justice in the cold blooded murder of Oscar Grant by a beast in blue uniform.









Just reprinted, 2014
Pull Yo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yoself

essays on Obama Drama, $19.95.


Marvin X is on the mark again with his accurate observation of the Obama era. The black community was so excited with Obama being the first Black Prez that they forgot he was a politician-not a messiah. Marvin X brings the community back to the reality of what Obama stands for-at the moment! He has not given up on Da Prez, he simply wants people to see what he stands for and what he still has an opportunity to do for our communities. Make sure you put Pull Yo Pants Up Fada Black Prez & Yo Self on your to-buy list It will be the best book you will read in 2010!--Carolyn Mixon


Marvin X, Guest Editor, Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies, 480 pages In honor of the Journal of Black Poetry, Marvin X collects poetry from throughout the Pan African world. This massive issue is a classic of radical Pan African literature in the 21st century. Amiri Baraka says, "He has always been in the forefront of Pan African writing. Indeed, he is one of the innovators and founders of the new revolutionary school of African writing."


 
 
 
Notes on the Wisdom of Action or How to Jump Out of the Box

In this collection he calls upon the people to become proactive rather than reactionary, to initiate the movement out the box of oppression by any means necessary, although Marvin X believes in the power of spiritual consciousness to create infinite possibilities toward liberation.

 
 
Soulful Musings on Unity of North American Africans, 150 pages






Marvin X explores the possibilities for unity among North American Africans. Available from Black Bird Press, 1222 Dwight Way, Berkeley CA 94702. jmarvinx@yahoo.com

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