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Thanks for taking a look! Black Power to the People. All power to the People!

Marvin X

Co-Founder, National Black Arts Movement

Tentative Memorial Program for Dingane Joe Goncalves, Founder,The Journal of Black Poetry 

Venue, East Oakland Black Cultural Zone, CDC, Carolyn Johnson, CEO

73rd and MacArthur,  Oakland 

Saturday,  August 27, 2022

2-6PM

1. Musical interlude,  Tarika Lewis, et al.

2. Youth Poets Open Mike

3. Rev. Mutima Imani, Libation and Mistress of Ceremony 

4. Norman Brown,  Welcome 

5. Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Bryant Bolling 

6. Obituary,  Dr. Oba T'shaka 

7.Poem by Oakland's First Poet Laureate,  Dr. Ayodele 

8. Black Arts Movement poets

Askia Toure,  Haki,  Last Poets,  Avotcja, devorah major, Kalamu ya Salaam, Phavia Kujichagulia, Judy Juanita, Fritz Pointer, Marvin X 

9. Eulogy,  Dr. Sonia Sanchez 

10. Words from Goncalves family, Barbara, Abina, Amma,Sabira

11. Music by Violinist Tarika Lewis

12 Comments 3 min ea 

12. Repast

Sponsors

Carolyn Johnson,  Black Cultural Zone CDC 

Dr. Ayodele Nzinga,  Black Arts Movement Business District CDC, City of Oakland’s first Poet Laureate 

Delores Nochi Cooper,  Founder, Berkeley Juneteenth Association 

Ustadi Kabiri,  Junkyard Cultural Project 

Dr. Oba T'shaka,  Emeritus Professor, Black Studies, San Francisco State University

Cinnabar, Laney College 

Marvin X,  Black Arts Movement, Black Bird Press, Black Vendors Association 

Left to right Dingane Jose Goncalves, Publisher and Editor of the Journal of Black Poetry. On right his brother Dominic Goncalves. The Journal of Black Poetry was the Bible of the 60s Pan African Poetry Revolution. Guest Editors included Haki Madhubuti, Askia Toure, Marvin X et al. Kalamu ya Salaam wrote, "Playwright Ed Bullins and poet Marvin X had established Black Arts West, and Dingane Joe Goncalves had founded the Journal of Black Poetry (1966). This grouping of Ed Bullins, Dingane Joe Goncalves, LeRoi Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Askia M. Touré, and Marvin X became a major nucleus of Black Arts leadership." Nikki Giovanni's first published poem appeared in the Journal of Black Poetry. If you were a Black poet in the 60s, no matter from America, Africa, the Caribbean or Asia, you were welcome to publish in the Journal of Black Poetry. Only Black World Magazine had a wider circulation but it didn't match the number of poets published in JBP. Thank you Dingane Jose Goncalves, you Cape Verde, Boston African! LOL

Although not pictured, Dingane Jose Goncalves was on the staff of Black Dialogue Magazine, along with (Left to right) Aubrey LaBrie, Marvin X, Abdul LaBrie, Al Young, Arthur Sheridan and Duke Williams. It was because Black Dialogue Magazine was inundated with poetry that Dingane founded The Journal of Black Poetry. 

Poet Playwright Ed Bullins RiP, contributed to the Journal of Black Poetry

Sonia Sanchez and Dingane were dear friends and comrades in the BAM revolution.

Nikki Giovanni's first published poem appeared in the Journal of Black Poetry.

Left to Right: LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and Larry Neal, Co-Editors of the BAM anthology Black Fire

Journal of Black Poetry, Marvin X Guest Editor

Art by Ben Caldwell

The Journal of Black Poetry featured this collection of leaflets promoting the Black Arts Movement coast to coast. Upper left is a Sun Ra and Poets (Askia Toure, The Last Poets, Marvin X, et al.) at the New Lafayette Theatre's

Workshop. Upper right leaflet promotes Marvin X's refusal to fight in Vietnam. Lower left is LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) at the San Francisco Black House. Lower right is a leaflet promoting the Last Poets at Harlem venue The East Winds.

Journal of Black Poetry, Marvin X Guest Editor

Haki Madhubuti contributed to the Journal of Black Poetry

Co-Founder of the Black Arts Movement and Co-Editors of the Journal of Black Poetry, Askia Toure and Marvin X