Marvin X Special Guest at Black Arts Week in Philadelphia, May 1st

Marvin X is Special Guest at  the Philadelphia Black Poetry Honors Ceremony, May 1st.

The enclosed attachment includes the full itinerary for Black Arts Week.  If you would like to receive a Free All Access Pass to the May 1st Philadelphia Black Poetry Honors Ceremony and Performance and TV taping at the Rotunda Theatre, 4014 Walnut Street on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania - Please RSVP your name and the names of any guest that you intend to bring or invite ASAP to osay121@msn.com or mauricebrianhenderson@yahoo.com.  

Please check to see if your name has been listed as an honoree or presenter. You should also check out the website of NATIONAL BLACK  AUTHORS TOUR (www.nationalblackauthorstour.com) and if you would like to have your biography listed please email it to loismoses@yahoo.com with a subject line of "include my biography on the NBAT website."

The All ACCESS pass will also include free entrance to the Reception/party at Azure Lounge, 15th & South Street, 9pm-11pm and open bar is from 10pm - 11pm.  the entrance code is Moe Reecee.

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Marvin X on Tour, 2014

Marvin X on Tour 2014

January

Amiri Baraka Memorial, Newark, NJ

February-March

Harlem reception for Marvin X at home of Rashidah Ishmaili

Marvin X at New York University tribute for Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka

Fresno City College Black History Lecture

Hinton Community Center, Fresno CA lecture/reading/conversation

Black Arts Movement Conference, University of California, Merced (co-producer with Kim McMillan)

April

Marvin X at Mumia Abu Jamal's 60th Birthday celebration, Philadelphia PA

May

17th

Malcolm X Jazz Festival, Oakland: Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra

20th

Marvin X will MC tribute to Amiri Baraka at Eastside Arts Center, 23rd and International, Oakland

June

14th
Juneteenth Festival, Hinton Center, Fresno CA

15th

Juneteenth, Berkeley CA

20th

Seattle WA reading and book signing TBA

For booking nationwide, call 510-200-4164

Sun Ra - A Joyful Noise (+playlist)

Sun Ra Arkestra - Face the Music / Space is the Place

Who is Sun Ra? Meet a Jazz Angel.

Sun Ra Interview (Helsinki, 1971)

Space is the place - Sun RA

Space is the place - Sun RA

Photo Essay :The Black Arts Movement 50 Years On, University of California, Merced, Feb 28 thru March 2, 2014

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT 50 YEARS ON

I'd originally wanted to go to the U.C. Merced conference on the Black Arts Movement because it was one in a series of events that were to lead up to Amiri Baraka's 80th birthday. When news of his death came in January, I wanted even more to attend, and reconfigured my paper a bit to start at the beginnings of Baraka's long discography of recordings with musicians, with further installments to follow (including at the ICA in London next month). At Merced, I was part of a panel titled "Word, Sound and Power," with papers by Geoffrey Jacques on Langston Hughes's The Panther and the Lash and Anna Everett on teaching Black film and other media of the era. And let's face it, I'd go anywhere to see Juan Felipe Herrerra with a banjo.

Another attraction was the chance to meet up with so many old friends, and to make new ones. In the audience at our panel I discovered somebody who had been a student at Federal City College in the same years I was there.  

We all owe a deep debt of gratitude to Kim McMillon, President of the African Diaspora Student Association, and her many colleagues and students who pulled off such a vibrant weekend, starting pretty much from scratch.

The Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra

The Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra. Eastside Arts has pledged $1,000.00 for the 27 City BAM tour. Mr. and Mrs. Ovis Collins pledge $1,000.00; Pamela Young-King pledges $1,000.00. If you support the BAM Tour, submit your name and pledge amount. Call

510-200-4164; email jmarvinx@yahoo.com

The Malcolm X Jazz Festival presents Marvin X and the BAM poet's choir & Arkestra, May 17, Oakland

Marvin X and Black Arts Movement's father of music, Sun Ra, who called his band the Arkestra.

The Malcolm X Jazz Festival is proud to announce the lineup for this year's festival will present Howard Wiley, Faye Carol, The Last Poets and Marvin X with the Black Arts Movement Poet's choir and Arkestra, including percussionist Tacuma King, violinist Tarika Lewis, Zena Allen on Kora. Poets include Ayodele Nzinga, Aries Jordan, Ginny Lim and Juan Felipe Herrera, et al.

This year's event is in honor of Black Arts Movement founder Amiri Baraka. Sponsored by Eastside Arts Cultural Center, the date is Saturday, May 17, Noon until 6pm. and San Antonio Park, Foothill and East 19th Street, Oakland. Free event.

The Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra. Eastside Arts has pledged $1,000.00 for the 27 City BAM tour. Mr. and Mrs. Ovis Collins pledge $1,000.00; Pamela Young-King pledges $1,000.00. If you support the BAM Tour, submit your name and pledge amount. Call

510-200-4164; email jmarvinx@yahoo.com

First USA Statue of Liberty was a Black Woman

 

 

The first Statue of Liberty given to the US by France was a Black woman that the US turned down so France replaced that one with the version currently in New York harbor. This Black Lady Liberty also made by France is found on the Island of St. Martin. 

French historian Edouard de Laboulaye, chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society, together with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, proposed to... the French government that the people of France should present the United States – through the American Abolitionist Society – the gift of a Statue of Liberty in recognition of the Black soldiers who won the Civil War in the United States, earning themselves their freedom. It was widely known then that it was Black soldiers who played the pivotal role in winning the war, and this gift was supposed to be a tribute to their prowess.

When the statue was presented to the U.S. Minister to France in 1884, it was rejected on the notion that the dominant view of the broken shackles would be offensive to a defeated U.S. South, who despised their former captives and would not want to be faced with a constant reminder of Blacks winning their freedom.