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Academy of da Corner,
14th and Broadway, NE corner
downtown Oakland
510-200-4164
jmarvinx@yahoo.com

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On Saturday, September 1, 3-6pm, Academy of da Corner, a mentoring project at 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland, presents Master Teacher Marvin X, reading and signing his latest book The Wisdom of Plato Negro, parables/fables, Black Bird Press, Berkeley.

The event takes place at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin, downtown Oakland. Donation $20.00, includes signed copy of book. Call 510-200-4164 for more information.

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Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland.--Ishmael Reed

The USA's Rumi, the wisdom of Saadi, the ecstasy of Hafiz.--Bob Holman

Jeremiah, I presume. One of the best story tellers in America. I'd put him ahead of
Mark Twain.--Rudolph Lewis

Bio

Marvin X is the author of thirty books, including In the Crazy House Called America, How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality, Mythology of Love.

He has taught at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Fresno State University, San Francisco State University, University of Nevada, Reno; Laney, Merritt and Mills Colleges in Oakland.

The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley has acquired his archives.

Space Is The Place [Sun Ra Film 1974]

Marvin X and Sun Ra
at Marvin's Black
Educational Theatre,
Fillmore, San Francisco,
1972. Both were teaching
Black Studies at UC Berkeley.
Sun Ra performed the musical
version of Marvin's Flowers
for the Trashman titled Take
Care of Business. They 
performed a five hour
concert without intermission,
along with choreographers
Raymond Sawyer and Ellendar
Barnes.

Killers Kill!

One day at my Academy of da Corner, our professor of law asked me why the brother who had just departed the corner always talks of killing. I whispered in my professor's ear, "He talks about killing all the time because he is a killer!"

All of a sudden America's chickens come home to roost, and it ain't very nice. Rather than laying eggs, they doo doo or poop human lives into the dustbin of eternity. The recent mass murder in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin is but the latest trail of tears coming to America for her crimes against humanity around the world. Again, I must quote James Baldwin, "The murder of my child will not make your child safe."

We understand the killer in Wisconsin was a  Special Ops, i.e., trained killer, so his life got the best of him, including a heavy dose of White Supremacy. Whites think they can escape the sins of this nation but they must be sadly informed the universe is not at their beck and call, and what goes around must and shall come around.

No, Sikhs are not Muslims, but in the mind of the deranged believers in White Supremacy, the only thing that matters is that their victims are non white. The supreme irony is that often it is the poor whites who join in the white supremacy mythology after programming by the 1%, and while the 1% carry out their death dealing deeds globally, the poor sycophants become overwhelmed with ignorance, hatred and the disconnection of their world view from reality.

With the selection or socalled election of Obama usher Black Power into the White House? Hell to the new! It is still imperialism, only in black face. Asks North American Africans has their lot changed since their black brother was selected/elected?

We know the jails and prisons are running over with young black men. We know 700,000 were stopped and frisked on the streets of New York and the plan is to go nationwide. Amiri Baraka predicted, "In the end the Negro will be the terrorist."

But in Wisconsin we see the example of white madness. At least North American Africans have every right to be in permanent rebellion since their is a permanent low intensity war against us. The NAA have never enjoyed white or any other kind of privilege. Is Wisconsin's mass murder the simple example of a believer in white supremacy refusing to face reality that the world is not white and other powers are on the move, e.,g., China, India, Brazil and even Africa has a higher economic growth  rate than the US and parts of Europe.

Temple tantrums and mental breakdowns on the part of whites will not solve the conundrum or prevent them from avoiding the precipice that their fading sense of reality shall bring them. We suggest they get with Tim Wise to be counseled  on how to recover from the addiction to white supremacy. For sure, they shall not be able to shoot their way out of the quagmire of their own hands and mental landscape.
They might consider diverting the trillion dollar annual defense budget for permanent war into health,
education and economic parity with a living wage. This is true national security, not sending young men with weak, sick minds into foreign battlefields to return as sick little puppies. Then you appear shocked at expressions of their mental trauma and white supremacy socialization.
--Marvin X
8/6/12/

Black Bird Press has just released the parables and fables of Marvin X, The Wisdom of Plato Negro.
He will be reading and signing books at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin Streets, downtown Oakland on Saturday, September 1, 3-6pm, accompanied by poet Aries Jordan, trumpet master Earl Davis and percussionist Tacuma King. Donation $20.00, includes signed copy of book and refreshments. Call 510-200-4164. www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com

James Brown - Good Foot, Soul Power & Make It Funky

ON ONE VERSION OF THIS SONG, JB CALLS FOR LAND,
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Press Release

Black Bird Press 1222 Dwight Way Berkeley CA 94702 510-200-4164 Press Release Bay Area people of radical consciousness will be able to attend a reading/book signing by revolutionary poet, playwright, essayist, educator, social activist, Marvin X, one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement, the most radical literary movement in American history. Along with playwright Ed Bullins, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Marvin X was/is a key mover and shaker. He co-founded San Francisco's Black Arts West Theatre with Ed Bullins, 1966, where his first play Flowers for the Trashman was produced. In 1965 the San Francisco State Drama Dept. premiered Flowers while Marvin was an undergraduate in the English /Creative writing, dept. He was a student of novelist John Gardner who took Flowers to the drama department. Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth called Marvin the best playwright to hit SF State! More recently, Marvin X's drama of addiction and recovery, One Day in the Life,  became the longest running African American drama in northern California. Mythology of Love was produced at the Joyce Gordon gallery earlier this year.  His latest book is The Wisdom of Plato Negro, parables/fables, Black Bird Press, 2012, $19.95. Chickenbones.com's Editor, Rudolph Lewis, notes, "I am deep into your Wisdom, in your thought, thinking and construction  of a literary work that is quite post-modern, an interactive text that would  not have been possible before the invention of the web, as indicated by your dialogues." At the Joyce Gordon, Marvin will read and sign books, accompanied by poet Aries Jordan,  trumpet master Earl Davis (associated with MX at Black Arts West Theatre, 1966, San Francisco),  percussion master Tacuma King.  Donation $19.95, includes signed copy of The Wisdom of Plato Negro.  For more information, 510-200-4164.

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