Monday, July 28, 2014

Youtube: The archives of Marvin X on Youtube



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    1. Marvin X at Yoshi's San Francisco Part II

      Marvin X is an internationally Poet, Playwright and Author. He is author of many books.
    2. WHITE SUPREMACY-2 BY MARVIN X

      Marvin X Brought the hose down with this on he was diffently at his best, with the Truth, Timing, and Talent. You Go Marvin X!!!
    3. WHITE SUPREMACY BY MARVIN X

      MARVIN X, ARTHUR, POET, ACTIVIST, MENTOR, FATHER, UNCLE, COMPADRE, SPEAK ABOUT THE DENIAL WE ARE IN AS ...
    4. Marvin X At the Black Caucus

      12th annual leadership Conference in Fresno.
      • HD
    5. Marvin X Defremery Park

      Tribute to Geronimo Pratt.
      • HD
    6. 1 - A Day in the Life - Marvin X and Discussion

      For My Brother Marvin X.

    7. RBG| WHITE SUPREMACY 2 -In A Crazy House Called America- Marvin X

      Companion PDF Read/ Download The Best of Marvin X Interactive| Poet, Playwright, Essayist and Lecturer ...
    8. Marvin X at the Philadelphia International Locks Conference

      Interview with Marvin X at the 15th Annual International Locks Conference. Marvin talks about his latest booklet The Mythology of ...
    9. Marvin X Reads Poetry at the Brecht Forum with Ras Moshe

      Marvin X Jackson, veteran poet activist of the Black Arts Movement reads poetry with Ras Moshe on tenor saxophone. This was ...
    10. Marvin X Jet.mp4

    11. Marvin X Jet #2.mp4

    12. Marvin X- "Black History is World History" (poem written in the 80's)@Fresno City College

      Bro. Marvin X sharing one of his poems.
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    13. Marvin X Tribute sponsored The Oakland Post, show #1

      Authors and Writers pay tribute to Chauncey Bailey and talk about the importance reading makes on a more mature, happier ...
    14. VTS 01 Marvin X The Poet / Playwright

      Marvin X is an internationally known author, poet and playwright. He is the author of many books.
    15. rmance on iTunes:http://bit.ly/UZ7d3m Watch James Arthur sing Let's ...

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    16. Marvin X on Wall Street Part 1 WBAI Interview

      Marvin X nationally known poet, playright, author and activist talks about the Black Arts Cultural Movement of the 1960's.

Hamza El Din - Water Wheel (completo)



Ah
holy ghost music
ah through the Mississippi Delta you came
holy ghost
saved us in the night
from strange fruit
holy ghost music
forced us to not cut their throats
for strange fruit
we listened and learned
if not for music
they would all be dead
heads cut off
thrown in the Mississippi with good cheer
Al Hamdulilah!
Play Hamza Al Din
work the Holy Ghost in our hearts
we are children of the sun and the moon
play for us our music from the Hapi River
Blue Hapi White Hapi
but Hapi
no De Nile Hapi
sing Hamza
pluck your  Oud into our hearts again
hearts ravaged by fear and loneliness
but fear is true great monster by far
we can be alone but not lonely
I write alone
I ask my lover not to hang on my shoulder
I am paranoid
let me compose in peace
find something for you to do that you enjoy
do not look over my shoulder
But I want to see what you are doing
I've never seen anything like this before
let me watch you, please.

Sing Hamza
Play Hamza
--Marvin X
7,27/14




Around the same time the musicians were turning Black Arts West out to the African myth-rituals, we were turned on to Hamza El Din, the Nubian, by Ishmalah, the hat maker, who was denied entrance to the Mosque #26 because he made hypocrite hats! Many of the creative and artistic brothers were deemed hypocrites by the devil officials at the mosque, coast to coast. But Hamza took us home, back to Hapi, not Nile River, the Hapi River. We call the Nile De Nile, a state of mind that is the prime factor in our addiction to white supremacy. Nothing can happen until we come out of DE NILE and get to HAPI!


Sunday, July 27, 2014

Dewey Redman and Marvin X's Black Arts West Theatre, San Francisco, 1966





Oh, how fondly  we remember Dewey Redman and all the Black Arts West Theatre
musicians, San Francisco, 1966. especially Rafael Donald Garrett, bassist, drummer Oliver Jackson,

BJ, Monte Waters and his Big Band, trumpet master Earl Davis who is still with me. Recently Earl performed with me at the Black Arts West Conference, University of California, Merced, Feb-March, 2014. Earl also performed at the Malcolm X Jazz/Arts Festival, Oakland. He was/is part of the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra who closed out the festival produced by Eastside Arts. Below is sax man David Murray and Earl accompanying my reading of Amiri Baraka's classic poem DOPE.

But Dewey, Rafael, Earl, Monte and the other musicians taught us (playwright Ed Bullins, actor Danny Glover, actors Hillery Broadous, Karl Bossiere, Duncan Barber, and Ethna Wyatt (Hurriyah Asar) and Vonetta McGee, et al., who to break free of the Western theatrical form, the main challenge of the Black Arts Movement. How do we transform the Western esthetic and return to the African and Eastern tradition of myth-ritual artistic expression. The musicians taught us how to transcend the script into an improvisational mechanism. They taught us ( and later Sun Ra would expand on the lesson) how to have discipline and freedom simultaneously. They demanded and we gave them free range of the theatre, including stage and audience (which become one in the BAM ritual theatre, ala Baraka, Marvin X, Ed Bullins and Robert McBeth and company at Harlem's New Lafayette Theatre, and of course Barbara Ann Teers National Black Theatre). During our plays, the musicians would appear on stage or enter from the rear, to accent or expand on the script.  To help us promote our productions and their concerts, they would play on the street in front of Black Arts West Theatre on Fillmore Street, across the street from Trees Poolhall. Fillmore was bumper to bumper cars mostly with North American African riders. The musicians would play along with the car horns and other street sounds, thus art and reality became one. We are so thankful the musicians showed us the way. Of course, we would meet Sun Ra in Harlem and our world of Black Arts was smashed by the Ra machine or Myth-Science Arkestra. Ra transcended the other musicians with his deep knowledge of African science and esthetics. He took us deeper with his demand for discipline as opposed to freedom. We were born free, he said. "Stop teaching your actors freedom, teach them discipline, there were born free."
What is so wonderful about Dewey Redman is that he gave us his son, Joshua, and the world knows the rest.

 Ancestor Dewey Redman

Joshua Redman, son of Dewey

 Marvin X and Sun Ra, Black Educational Theatre, 1972. During this time, Marvin X and Sun Ra both lectured in Black Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.



 Fly to Allah, poems, 1968,established Marvin X as the father of Muslim American literature, according to Dr. Mohja Khaf, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. All the BAM poets and artists were deeply influenced by Islam, especially taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad through his spokesman Malcolm X. We think of Askia Toure, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Last Poets, Haki Madhubuti, et al.

photo Doug Harris







 Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra, Malcolm X Jazz/Art Fest, May 17, 2014

photo collage by Adam Turner



 Dance Amiri and Maya, dance. Do the funky git down! Look at Amina enjoying herself (center).



 Marvin X wants to revive Amiri Baraka play The Toilet for a manhood training ritual or rites of passage.



 Marvin X and violinist Tarika Lewis, a member of the BAM Poets Choir and Arkestra



 Elliott Bey, keyboard genius, works with Marvin X coast to coast. See their DVD Marvin X Live in Philly at Warm Daddies



 Ancestor Goldsky works

 Francisco Mora Catlett, Afro Horn Ensemble, son of ancestor Elizabeth Cattlett Mora, a BAM master herself. His mother gave Marvin X refuge in Mexico City during his second exile from resisting the draft, for which he was deported from Belize and returned to US custody. He served five months in Terminal Island Federal Prison for his beliefs, including the notion promoted by his associate in the Nation of Islam, Muhammad Ali, "No Viet Cong never called me a Nigguh."





 Ed Bullins and Marvin X founded Black Arts West Theatre (BAW) in San Francisco's Fillmore District, 1966. Ed joined Eldridge Cleaver and Marvin X at the Black House, political and cultural center, 1967.



 Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale was an actor in Marvin's theatre before he founded the Black Panther Party along with Huey Newton. Bobby, Huey and Marvin studied together at Oakland's Merritt College, 1962.



 Godfather of the Black Arts Movement, Amiri Baraka and Marvin X



 Ethna X. Wyatt, aka Hurriyah Asar, Queen of the West Coast Black Arts Movement. She was a part of Black Arts West Theatre and The Black House.



 Master playwright, Ed Bullins



 The Holy couple, Amina and Amiri Baraka. We think that's Ras in her arms, now the Mayor of Newark New Jersey.



 Marvin X and his man in Philly, piano master Alfie Pollitt



 Earl Davis, trumpet master of BAM


 Earl Davis at Black Arts Conference, University of California, Merced, 2014


 The Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra, Black Arts Movement Conference, University of California, Merced, 2014



Marvin X reading Amiri Baraka's DOPE, accompanied by David Murray and Earl Davis, backed by the BAM Poets Choir and Arkestra, Malcolm X Jazz Fest, May 17, 2014, Oakland


Joshua Redman - Jazz Crimes (Live)

Marvin X speaks: The Gaza Concentration Camp: KPOO Radio, 89.5FM: Tuesday, 10PM, Terry Collins Show

On Tuesday evening, 10PM, 89.5, KPOO FM will interview Master teacher/poet Marvin X on the GAZA concentration camp and why North American African must support Palestinians and all peoples liberating themselves from global terrorism by imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism and apartheid known as Zionism and all forms of reaction, especially by the Arab and African ruling classes. Brother Terry Collins will conduct the interview with Marvin X. Catch Marvin X this weekend at Oakland's Art and Soul Festival. FYI, Marvin X says, "When you separate the art from the soul, it is a prescription for psychosis or a break with reality! Art reflects the soul or the lack thereof!" In his play A Black Mass, Amiri Baraka said of the devil, "Where the soul's print should be, there is only a pouch of disgusting habits." Marvin X's booth will be outside the entrance at 14th and Broadway, near Walgreens. 













KPOO Radio Presents
Tuesday, July 29, 10pm 

Marvin X speaks 

The Gaza Concentration Camp:



Why Blacks Must Stand with Palestinians
Terry Collins Show

KPOO 89.5 FM Radio, San Francisco

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X will autograph books at the Blues, Brews & BBQ, Monterey Bay

Black Bird Press News & Review: Marvin X will autograph books at the Blues, Brews & BBQ, Monterey Bay

Marvin X: Why I love Nikki Giovanni


This morning I heard an interview by Sonali Kalhatkar (Uprising Radio) with Nikki Giovanni on radio station KPFA, Berkeley, a Pacifica station. Nikki and I have been friends and comrades since 1968 when the Black Arts Movement shakers and movers were in Harlem NY and throughout the United States. But Nikki was there along with the Last Poets, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, Woody King, Askia Toure, Larry Neal, Barbara Ann Teer, Haki Madhubuti, Sun Ra, Milford Graves, myself and a host of others.

Nikki took full advantage of the moment and went on to great success. After our BAM moment, sometimes I agreed with her and sometimes I didn't, but this morning I agreed with almost everything she said, especially when asked about the BAM poets and their relationship and contribution to the Rap poets. She appreciated Tupac, especially for holding up the revolutionary banner; she gave Jay Z, 50 cents, Sean Jean, even Kanye West, kudos for being artists and businessmen. She did say Kanye lives on another planet!

We appreciated her remarks about her elders, especially her grandfather, whom she described as a man of class, who dressed with class as did my father and uncles.

I especially liked her comments about people tripping over fidelity. She said we need to get beyond such matters. Of course her remarks are in sync with my pamphlet Mythology of Pussy and Dick. By the way, the young people are distributing this pamphlet to each other and they report to me that it is changing young people's lives.

But when the interviewer asked her about President Obama, her answer sent chills over my body. She said President Obama has placated his enemies but not his friends. He is not her idea of a great man. "My idea of a great man is H. Rap Brown," she said. Nikki, I love you!
--Marvin X
7/24/14




H. Rap Brown, aka Imam Jamil Al-Amin


Open letter to the Community from Karima Al-Amin
Jul 24, 2014 — 

As-salaamu'alaikum, Ramadan Mubarak!
I am so pleased to share this update with the many individuals who supported our effort to campaign for Imam Jamil to receive medical attention and to be transferred to a federal medical center. I have heard from Imam Jamil who has reported that he indeed was transferred on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, from the Florence, Colorado ADX to Butner FMC, in North Carolina. He would like to express his deep appreciation for the support he has received from individuals who made calls, signed petitions, attended meetings, wrote letters, offered public comments, and galvanized others to take action. Within this past week, the Imam has had extensive examinations, from "head to toe." Additionally, this morning--July 23, 2014--he had the bone marrow biopsy. Although we will not receive the results for another two weeks, we are encouraging people at this point to continue sending letters and cards to the 
Imam, while he waits to receive the medical results.

I do intend to send personal letters of appreciation to individuals in the hope that I will not miss thanking those who made a difference in this campaign. Together we demonstrated that there are those who will see an injustice and act to expose and correct the wrong.
I also wanted to share that Imam Jamil has been able to keep his fast during Ramadan, which is yet another example of his strength and faith. May Allah continue to guide him and strengthen him. Send letters and cards to: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, 99974-555 FMC Butner Federal Medical Center P.O. Box 1600 Butner, NC 27509
Jazak Allah Khaira Karima Al-Amin






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 Sonali has just completed a successful crowd funding campaign to expand the reach of her program to Free Speech TV. Sonali is also a weekly columnist for Truthdig.com and the Co-Director of the Afghan Women's Mission, a US-based non-profit that works in solidarity with Afghan women activists. She has a Masters Degree in Astronomy, and lives in Southern California with her husband and two sons. 
Uprising Radio is also produced by Bipasha Shom. She was recently nominated for an LA Press Club Award for her piece on the California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike.


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KPOO Radio Presents
Tuesday, July 29, 10pm 

Marvin X speaks 

The Gaza Concentration Camp:



Why Blacks Must Stand with Palestinians
Terry Collins Show

KPOO 89.5 FM Radio, San Francisco

kpoo.com