Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Join us at the opening events for the Second Annual Sacramento Black Book Fair, Friday, June 5, 2015

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Tribute for Ancestor poet Louis Reyes Rivera

Flowing River of Words
Annual Tribute Event for Louis Reyes Rivera

Saturday, May 16
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 Third Avenue, Manhattan
6:30 - 8:30 PM

Every year, the National Writers Union features four emerging poets who were personally selected by close associates of Louis Reyes Rivera. These four artists are given the extraordinary opportunity to read their original works to the accompaniment of professional jazz musicians in a prominent venue. This year, the poets are Cesilie Anandi, Cypress Preston Jackson, Nkosi Nkululeko, and Meriam Rodriguez. Carolyn Butts and Layding Kaliba will also be honored with the 2015 Louis Reyes Rivera Excellence Award for Educator Artists. We're thrilled to announce that UpSurge! Jazz will be performing too! This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc., with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Tickets: $15 in advance/ $20 at the door. Event tickets are available for sale through The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Box Office.
Call 212‐780‐9386 or visit nuyorican.org.

Can't attend? Please consider making a donation so this event can continue.
http://louis2015tribute.eventbrite.com. Thank you!

About Louis Reyes Rivera
Known as the Janitor of History, poet/essayist Louis Reyes Rivera began studying his craft in 1960 and teaching in 1969 after co-founding The Paper, an institution brought forth as a result of the 1969 Student Takeover of City College. Rivera was born May 19, 1945, in Brooklyn, the oldest of 12 children. Considered by many as a necessary bridge between the African and Latino American communities, he was a professor of Pan-African, African-American, Caribbean and Puerto Rican literature and history whose essays and poems appeared in numerous publications, including his own Scattered Scripture. Before his passing on March 2, 2012, he completed an epic poem, Jazz in Jail (unpublished) and translated Clemente Soto Velez's Broomstick Stallion. The recipient of over 20 awards, Rivera assisted in the publication of well over 200 books and frequently performed with his own band, The Jazzoets.

Learn more!
Article by award-winning journalist Herb Boyd
"Inside the River of Poetry" essay
Fascinating Interview


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Marvin X has a unique point of view! Order his classic How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy!

Yes, they say I have a unique point of view. One day I was hustling my books on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, NY. A brother ran up to me for books because he'd just heard a bout me at another conscious book stand. They told him I'd just come through and had a different point of view. He spent about 30 dollars with me because he said he wanted a different point of view. At the African Village in South Caroline, a young brother came up to me. He said, "Marvin X, I know who you are. I'm not your friend on face book but my friend sends your stuff to me. You definitely have a different point of view."

Now Available from Black Bird Press: the Marvin X classic How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, a 13 step manual based on the AA 12-Step model with a Pan African Perspective. $19.95, Black Bird Press, 339 Lester Ave. #10, Oakland CA 94606. We have the Square for credit cards: call 510-200-4164, add $5.00 for priority mailing.





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Lest we forget the day American pigs dropped bomb on US citizens in Philly

Lest We Forget: 
This Philadelphia Police Helicopter Dropped A Bomb & Murdered (5) Children & (6) Adults- No Cop Was Ever Charged
of the MOVE bombing MOVE bombing since the bombing
GETTING TO PHILADELPHIA FROM NEW YORK CITY
BUSES WILL BE LEAVING NYC On Wednesday, May, 13th at 8:30 am 
FROM: RIVERSIDE CHURCH, 120th and Claremont Avenue
and
FROM: SEIU LOCAL 1199
W. 43RD STREET
(between 8th and 9th Avenues) 

Bus tickets for MAY 13 for the full day of activities in Philadelphia can be obtained by contacting the HOTLINE at 212.330.8029 (leave a message with your name, phone number, and mention your interest in a bus ticket).

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Sunday, May 10, 2015

MARVIN X UPDATE: FROM MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATION TO SUN RA CELEBRATION AT UNIVERISTY OF CHICAGO






 BAM MASTER POET ASKIA TOURE, MENTOR OF AMIRI BARAKA, MARVIN X, ET AL. WE GIVE ALL PRAISE TO ASKIA TOURE, BAM MASTER POET, CO-FOUNDER

PARENTS OF MARVIN X, ATTENDING THE PEACE CONFERENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO, CERCA 1945, AT THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED NATIONS: MARIAN M. JACKMON AND OWENDELL JACKMON I, WORLD WAR ONE VETERAN.
ARIES JORDAN AND PROSPERITY, STUDENTS OF MARVIN X; THEY HAVE ENDURED HIS ORDEAL BY FIRE OR THE WILD CRAZY RIDE CALLED THE MARVIN X EXPERIENCE. THESE BRAVE LADIES WILL PERFORM WITH THE POET AT THE SACRAMENTO BLACK BOOK FAIR.

THESE LADIES DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR ENDURING THE WILD CRAZY RIDE CALLED THE MARVIN X EXPERIENCE. YES, MARVIN X LOVES THEM AND THEY LOVE HIM, NO MATTER HIS NEGROCITIES (AMIRI BARAKA TERM). NO ONE ON EARTH CAN ENDURE THE MARVIN X EXPERIENCE EXCEPT FOR A MOMENT! HIS COUSIN KEITH LEE SAID, "MARVIN YOU ARE BEYOND INSANE!"

ELLIOT BEY, HIS SPECIAL MUSICIAN IN PHILLY SAYS,"YOU MUST TAKE MARVIN X LIKE YOU ARE AT A BUFFET, DON'T FILL UP YOUR PLATE AT ONE TIME. TAKE A LITTLE AT A TIME, THEN GO BACK FOR MORE. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO DIGEST MARVIN X. IF YOU TRY TO DIGEST HIM AT ONE TIME, YOU WILL SUFFER INDIGESTION, SO DO THE BUFFET MODEL.

 MARVIN X'S MENTOR
 HIS HOLINESS GURU BAWA
"YOU ARE WITHIN GOD AND GOD IS WITHIN YOU."
 JAH AMIEL, GRANDSON OF MARVIN X. ON THE WAY TO LAKE MERRITT, TOLD HIS GRANDFATHER, "GRANDFATHER, YOU CAN'T SAVE THE WORLD, BUT I CAN!"

Thank you Mother
I came from your womb
yet only you knew who I was
your child
special
you knew my mission
I knew nothing
you said son
you don't need a wife
for you
maid secretary mistress
mama said
does she know the fruit of her womb
I had no clue
mama said I was her special child
siblings knew
said nothing to me
never thought I was special
mama knew
all her nine children
two grand she rasied
I was special
mama said nothing to me
how did my siblings know
they told me
Mama knew I was special
Mama knew her son didn't need a wife
no matter how many he married in the Islamic tradition
she knew her son was artist supreme
MAMA KNEW HER SON WAS ON A MISSION FROM GOD ALMIGHTY.
just don't abuse mothers of your children, mama said
Bad luck if you abuse mothers of your children.

Poor son. Was he mentally retarted, mentally challenged
he mistook his creativity for his sexuality
His Muse called, he thought it was his penis talking
Sun Ra told him discipline in all things
Sun Ra SAID serve the Creator God
don't commercialize like Coltrane, Sonny said
A Love Supreme. A Love Supreme.
On the day he joined ANCESTORS
SONNY SENT A MESSAGE FROM
BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA TO ME IN FRESNO CA
COMING FROM CHURCH WITH COUSIN TANNY
SHE SAID OUT OF THE BLUE
MARVIN DIDN'T YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH SUN RA
OUT OF THE BLUE SHE SAID THIS ON SUNDAY FROM CHURCH
TANNY, REMEMBER, I BROUGHT SUN RA TO FRESNO
HE MET MY MOTHER THEN BROUGHT HIM DOWN THE BLOCK TO YOUR HOUSE TO MEET YOUR DJ HUSBAND KEVIN.
SUN RA SPIRIT CAME FROM ALABAMA TO FRESNO THE DAY HE DIED OR JOINED ANCESTORS

NEXT DAY FRESNO BEE HAD HALF PAGE ARTICLE ON SUN RA MAKING HIS TRANSITION THAT SUNDAY IN ALABAMA. DID HE SEND HIS SPIRIT TO ME IN FRESNO?
SOMEBODY HEP ME. I NEED HEP! HOW DID HE GET TO ME ON HIS DEPARTURE FROM EARTH DAY?
--MARVIN X
5/10/15
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Marvin X interviewed by Norman Richmond on their exile in Canada as draft resisters and Marvin's association with Sun Ra; Marvin X will particpate in the Sun Ra celebration at the University of Chicago; he will perform with Sun Ra musicians Marshall Allen and Danny Thompson, also Chicago muscians David Boyken et al.

Diasporic Music

 

host picture Podcast Link: feed feed Producer/Host Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali provides an All-African mix of music and politics. "Diasporic Music" is made in the West but is not of the West."
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Marvin X; Malinda Francis
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Download   |   Play 		2015-05-10 Marvin X was born Marvin Ellis Jackmon on May 29, 1944, in Fowler, California. Formerly known as El Muhajir, Marvin X was a key poet and playwright of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in the 1960s and early 1970s. At Merritt College, he became friends with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, co-founders of the Black Panther Party. Filmmaker and social activist Malinda Francis a.k.a. Docuvixen has just returned from Haiti. Music by Archie Shepp, Buffy Sainte Marie, Solomon Burke, 2Pac and more. Also, the song 'Baltimore' by Prince. Songs that U can trust, news that U can use. Visit Norman's blog. Norman O. Richmond aka Jalali on Facebook.
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Black Bird Press News & Review: Academy of Da Corner Episode #2: Broken Systems, Broken Minds















Black Bird Press News & Review: Academy of Da Corner Episode #2: Broken Systems, Broken Minds: Pharaoh magicians gather in dens of iniquity to share blood money. Teachers, preachers, politicians, all there to party on the backs of the poor. The military stand post at the door of the den, ready to club the wretched into submission, even death, if they dare enter the den of thieves, robbers, murderers, and those who perpetuate the world of make believe.

Inside the den we hear a symphony of sick sounds, giggles, wails, grunts emanating from putrid minds exhausted from wickedness. The result is systematic gridlock--it is 5pm and the freeway is jammed with drivers full of road rage, ready to kill in an instant. It is thus a destruction of self by self, internal combustion.
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Aries Jordan and Prosperity, students at Marvin X's Academy of da Corner, will perform with him at Sacramento Black Book Fair, June 5,6,7,2015






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Happy Mother's Day Mrs. Amina Baraka and all mothers throughout the world. Prophet Muhammad said, "Heaven is at the feet of your mothers!"

Ras J. Baraka, The Honorable Mayor of Newark, NJ and his mother, Mrs. Amina Baraka
Jet Magazine, May 20, 1971













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