Cornel, Samantha Akwei, poet/organizer, assistant to Marvin X, Marvin X
photo Adam Turner
Cornel West supports Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement's 27 City Tour. He called on all cities with populations of North American Africans to invite the BAM 27 City Tour, especially his hometown of Sacramento CA. "If they will bring BAM to Sacramento, I will participate."
The Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary celebration will be at Oakland's Laney College on Saturday, February 7, all day, from 10am thru 8pm. The event is free/donations accepted. For more information: 510-200-4164.
Marvin X: Notes on Cornel West at First Congregational Church, Oakland, a benefit for KPFA, conversation with Davey D
Dr.
Cornel West appeared at Oakland's First Congregational Church to
promote his book The Radical King, an examination of the unsanitized Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. West described Dr. King as a socialist with an
international perspective, especially after his Riverside Church speech
against the Viet Nam war, but he noted how Coretta Scott King approached
Wes after a speech to tell him the first thing Dr. King told her was
that he was a socialist. West noted that King was mentored by a
professor at Morehouse who lectured on Marxism. His international
perspective was evident when he attended the 1957 celebration of Ghana's
independence from British colonialism.
Black
preachers were no friends of Dr. King. They were especially against him
after the Riverside speech. We recall Dr. King was thrown out of the
National Baptist Convention for being a hoodlum and thug. Dr. West
labeled Rev. Al Sharpton as one of Pharaoh's magicians, along with Rev.
Jesse Jackson. They do not question Pharaoh, but protect him and support
him even while he walks around with a kill list, even while he takes
out American citizens without charges or trial. Cornel said he supports
Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement's 27 City Tour. He called on all
cities with populations of North American Africans to invite the BAM 27
City Tour, especially his hometown of Sacramento CA. "If they will bring
BAM to Sacramento, I will participate."
The
Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary celebration will be at Oakland's
Laney College on Saturday, February 7, all day, from 10am thru 8pm. The
event is free/donations accepted. For more information: 510-200-4164.
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