Marvin X was invited to have a conversation with UC Merced students in Professor Kim McMillan's Theatre and Social Justice class. Students surprised the poet when they took turns reading his first play Flowers for the Trashman, musical version Take Care of Business, music by Sun Ra. Students have also read the scene Salaam, Huey Salaam about his last meeting with Black Panther co-founder Dr. Huey P. Newton in a West Oakland Crack house. Salaam, Huey, Salaam, a scene from One Day in the Life, the docudrama of Marvin's addiction and recovery (It's the most powerful drama I've seen--Ishmael Reed) was co-written by playwright Ed Bullins and produced in New York at Woody King's New Federal Theatre. The full length drama was produced in New York at Sista's Place in Brooklyn and the Brecht Forum in Manhattan; in Newark, NJ, it was performed at Amiri Baraka's house.
He enjoyed hearing the students read Flowers for the Trashman that is included in SOS: the Black Arts Movement Reader, edited by Sonia Sanchez, John Bracey and James Smethurst, UMASS Press.
During the Q and A, Marvin told the students Flowers for the Trashman was not only written at the beginning my writing career, but it was written at the beginning of the 1960s Black Arts and Black Liberation Movement. The language reveals Marvin's leaning toward the Nation of Islam which he joined in 1967. Salaam, Huey, Salaam was written in the fourth quarter of my life and at the end of the Black Liberation Movement. The revolutionaries at Sista's Place in Brooklyn said no excuse was acceptable for radicals like Marvin, Huey and Eldridge getting addicted to Crack, but Marvin says we were exhausted from years of struggle. In the scene, Huey tells Marvin, "We had to experience this, Jackmon. But we can come out of it, we came out of slavery." But Huey and Eldridge never made it back from Crack!
Catch Marvin X at the
Second Annual Sacramento Black Book Fair, June 5, 6, 7, 2015
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The
Second Annual Sacramento Black Book Fair June
5-7, 2015 is presented in conjunction with the
Juneteenth Festival
The historic McClatchy Park known as “The Village,”
Saturday, June 6 and June 7, 2015 will be jumping at the Callie Carney Amphitheater
featuring gospel, jazz music, bands, poetry, food trucks, vendors
and much more!!!
Free and open to the
public!!
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Join Sacramento
Juneteenth, Inc. & Sacramento Black Book Fair (SBBF),
Saturday, June 6 from 12 noon-5:00pm at McClatchy
Park @ Callie Carney
Amphitheater, (35th Street & 5th Ave.) Sacramento,
CA 95817. The event will feature the
Juneteenth Festival’s auditions, bands, vendors, food trucks, Oak Park Farmer's Market,
and much more!!! For more
info visit:http://sacramentojuneteenthinc.org/festival/auditons
- Join the Sacramento Black Book Fair (SBBF) Sunday, June 7 from 12 noon-5:00pm McClatchy Park at Callie Carney Amphitheater. The program will feature: Stacey Noble, Singer, Norman McDaniel & EarCandy ~ Jazz,, gospel music, vendors, Brother Hypnotic & local poets, food trucks, music, and much more!!!
For more info visit. http://www.sacramentoblackbookfair.com.
Thank you and join the
celebration!!!
Second Annual Sacramento Black Book Fair
(SBBF)
2015 Co-Sponsors/Community
Partners:
African Research
Institute
Black United Fund of Sacramento
Valley
The Black Group
Brickhouse Art Gallery
Blue Nile Press
City of Sacramento – Neighborhood
Services Department
Friends of the Sacramento Public
Library
JTEnterprises
Roberts Family Development
Center
Sacramento Area Black
Caucus
Sacramento City Councilmember Allen
Warren
The Sacramento City Teachers
Association
Sacramento City Councilmember Steve
Hansen
Sacramento City Councilmember Rick
Jennings, III
Sacramento City Councilmember Jay
Schenirer
Teichert Foundation
The Talking Drums News
Colonial Heights Library Affiliated
Friends
Kakwasi Somadhi
Underground Books
Sacculturalhub.com
Drexel University
Sacramento
Sacramento Juneteenth,
Inc.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.,Eta
Gamma Omega Chapter
Sacramento Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Fred and Ruth Foote
ZICA Creative and Literary
Guild
Center for African Peace & Conflict
Resolution, CSUS
Black Humanists and Non-Believers of
Sacramento
Sacramento Section- The National
Council of Negro Women
Mary McLeod Bethune Readers are Leaders Club
Tracy & Symia Stigler
Young Scholars
–Calvary Christian Center
Sacramento Poetry
Center
Sister to Sister Book
Group
100 Black Men of
Sacramento
Sacramento Food Bank
& Family Services
Brenda’s Mane
Event
Black Parallel School
Board
Literary
Ladies Alliance
The Merritt
Law Clinic
Sisters
Quilting Collective
NIA –Women of
Purpose
Leslie &
Faye Wilson Kennedy
Sacramento
Chapter-Black Child Development Institute
Pam Haynes
Black Images Book
Club
The Borden Family
OBBC (Book Club)
Sacramento
Black Chamber of Commerce
Allegro Book
Club
Sacramento
Public Library Foundation
The
California Endowment
The Office of
Campus Community Relations, University of California, Davis
Los Rios Community College
District
Roy Kaufman
Sacramento Observer
Newspapers
California Black Chamber of
Commerce
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Dr. Tchaka Muhammed
Crystal Bowl
Brenda & Keith
Dabney
The Scott
Family
Dorothy Benjamin &
Family
Sacramento Chapter of The Links Incorporated
Phil Nelson & Family
Endorsed by:
Mayor Kevin Johnson
Women's Civic Improvement
Club
Oak Park United Methodist
Church
Guild Theater
Sacramento City Unified School
District
Sacramento Public
Library
Assembly member Kevin
McCarty
California Legislative Black
Caucus
916Ink
Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento
Area Youth Speaks (SAYS)
Sojourner Truth Art
Museum
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