Marvin X Book Tour and Performance Dates

Marvin X Book Tour

Oakland 

December 7, 2019
Dr. Cornel West and Marvin X in Conversation,
Geoffery's Inner Circle, BAMBD Oakland CA

January 25, Saturday, 12 Noon

Marvin X Welcomes NCobra Reparations gathering in the BAMBD

Joyce Gordon Gallery

14th and Franklin Streets

Downtown Oakland

Host Jahahara

Dirty South

Durham, North Carolina

January 30-31

Reading at Duke University

Black Muslim Atlantic Symposium

Tonight, Oakland poet Marvin X broke down into tears as he tried to read his poem on his recently departed friend Nisa Bey during the Black Muslim Atlantic Conference at Duke University, Durham NC.

photo James Rhodes

East Coast, Up South

Marvin X at Philly's Moonstone Poetry Reading, Shakespeare Bookstore

Marvin X and Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon

Kimmika is a dynamic/dramatic poet who studied with the 

Mistress of Poetry, Sonia Sanchez

Newark NJ

Friday February 7

4-6PM

Source of knowledge

Book store

876 Broad Street

Marvin X reading/book signing

SAVE THIS DATE: August 2020

Black Arts Movement Festival, BAMFEST, Black August 2020

Sonia Sanchez and Marvin X have agreed to perform a concert reading with Maestro Michael Morgan and the Oakland Symphony, followed by a possible conversation with Sonia, Marvin X, Angela Davis and Kumasi, Founder of Black August and Griot of the Black Prison Movement. BAMFEST is a production
of the Black Arts Movement Business District CDC, under the direction of Dr. Ayodele Nzinga.

 Sonia Sanchez and Marvin X, Philly 2\3\20

photo James Rhodes

Marvin X, Sonia Sanchez and Duke University Professor Ellen McLarney
photo James Rhodes

Professor McLarney is writing a book on Black Muslim inspired writers,

including Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Yusef Rahman,

Yusef Iman, et al. Dr. McLarney produced the recent Duke University on

Black Muslim Atlantic that brought together Black Muslim scholars from

around the USA.

James Rhodes, recent Dartmouth graduate and grandson of Marvin X, assisted his grandfather's book tour and was blessed to meet Dr. Sonia Sanchez at her home in Philly.