Marvin X will participate in the 60th birthday celebration of Mumia Abu Jamal,
Philadelphia PA, April 24-26, 2014. Cornel West will also participate.
Monday, April 7, 2014
How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy Type II
See Dr. Nathan Hare's foreword to How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy by Marvin X. Dr. Hare speaks of Addiction to White Supremacy Type II, now available from Black Bird Press, 1222 Dwight Way, Berkeley CA 94702, $19.95.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Senator Vincent Hughes on Breaking the silence on mental wellness
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
Memorial Service for Judge Henry Ramsey, Jr., Saturday, May 3, 1-3pm, Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley
MEMORIAL SERVICE TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OFF JUDGE HENRY RAMSEY, JR SATURDAY MAY 3, 2014, 1-3 PM WHEELER AUDITORIUM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CA
Reception for reflections will be held at the California Memorial Football Stadium, University of California, Berkeley immediately following the ceremony
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS PLEASE DONATE TO THE JUDGE’S FAVORITE CHARITY
Restorative Justice For Oakland Youth (RJOY) interrupts cycles of violence and incarceration by promoting restorative justice policy and practices in Oakland’s schools and juvenile justice system. With an emphasis on repairing harm and inviting all affected to jointly figure out how to do so, restorative justice gives equal attention to community safety, victim’s needs, and offender accountability and growth. Most recently, at a continuation high school in West Oakland for youth in the juvenile justice system, violence and suspension rates have fallen dramatically, graduation rates and test scores are on the rise, and the school has garnered national attention for its stories of transformation. The Oakland Unified School District adopted restorative justice as official policy in 2010. www.rjoyoakland.org
The Center for Youth Development Through Law (CYDL) provides life changing experiences to high school students from low-income backgroungs through a summer internship and education program, educational mentoring, and after-school program. Building on the students’ passion, intelligence and interest in law and social justice, these programs foster academic and pratical skills, interpersonal competence, self-confidence and high aspirations. More than 92% of the students go on to attend institutions of higher education. After participating in the Center’s summer program, one student remarked, “ It was like I was drowning for so long, and this program finally threw me a rope!” www.youthlawworks.org
The Young Women’s Saturday Program (YWSP), founded in 2011, serves as an enhancement to Alameda County Girls Court. YWSP, also know as The Alameda County Young Women’s Empowerment Program, mainly serves girls in Alameda County who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and those at-risk for such exploitation who are on probation. The 12-week program, which focuses on trauma recovery....
Henry Ramsey Jr., Legal Scholar, Former Howard Law Dean, Dies at 80
Henry Ramsey Jr. was involved in every facet of the law in his 30-plus year career. He started as a deputy district attorney, moved into private practice, was elevated to judge, taught law and served as dean at the Howard University Law School.
When he died after suffering a stroke March 14, acquaintances said the world lost a brilliant legal mind. He took over as dean at Howard’s law school in 1990, an imposing figure in a field of impressive legal minds.
When he died after suffering a stroke March 14, acquaintances said the world lost a brilliant legal mind. He took over as dean at Howard’s law school in 1990, an imposing figure in a field of impressive legal minds.
“He wore bow ties all the time,” said Orlan Johnson, an intellectual properties lawyer and former Howard Law School professor who lives in Bowie, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C.. “He reminded you of someone in academia. He had a very professorial intellect. You never saw him not looking the part of being an academician.”
Johnson said prior to becoming Dean of the Law School, Ramsey had no connection to Howard, but was hired because of his strong credentials.
“He had no connection to the law school,” Johnson said. “He was one of the deans who quote unquote didn’t have a Howard background. He was part of the legacy of outside people coming in to take leadership positions. Whenever you go outside the family, things can get tough, but he was well respected in what he brought.”
Among Ramsey’s priorities was improving the law school’s bar passage rate.
“He brought a lot of structure and discipline, as well as a high level of focus on academics,” Johnson said. “He believed in the Howard tradition of being a civil engineer, but he also felt that should be coupled with strong academic achievement.”
Ramsey came to Howard after an illustrious career. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of California, Riverside in 1960 and his law degree from the University of California’s Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law.
His first job was in the Contra Costa County District’s Attorney’s Office, one of the first African Americans to be hired as a prosecutor there.
After a few years, he moved into private law, focusing on civil and criminal matters, according to his LinkedIn page. From 1981 until 1990, he served as a judge with the Alameda County Superior Court. During the same time, he worked as a law professor at Berkeley. He became dean at Howard in 1990 and retired in 1995.
Besides working in the law, Ramsey served on the Berkeley City Council from 1973 to 1977, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown told the newspaper that he and Ramsey worked together on several cases representing “those who couldn't get representation, like the Black Panthers.” Brown remembered Ramsey as being “forceful” and someone who “caused everyone to be conscious of their own conduct.”
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte told the Chronicle that she remembers Ramsey as a "warrior for justice and fairness and equality in our court system.”
Charles Ramsey, one of Ramsey’s six children, president of the West Contra Costa Unified School District board, said his father taught his children to give back.
"My dad always said, 'You'll be measured as a man not by what you did for yourself, but what you do for others,'" he told the San Francisco newspaper.
Ramsey died Friday at Berkeley’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center after having a stroke at his home.
He is survived by his second wife, Eleanor, and six children.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
No Jobs, No Education, No Housing, except for terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan
I am not to be fooled by the blood suckers of the poor. Tell me how can America offer the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan three items if they lay down their arms and pledge allegiance to the constitution of their nations: jobs, housing and education, yet this same offer is not offered to the boyz and girls in the hoods of America. If you can stop the violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, why do you not offer the same solution to the boyz and girls in the hoods in Chicago, NYC, Philly, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco.
You do not offer jobs, housing and education in the hood because you have found a better method of containment, jail and prison, at $50,000 to $60,000 per inmate per year. And let us not speak of juveniles at $250.000.00 per inmate per year. We have visited the juvenile in detention and they have told us that they cannot get out until they can be placed in a family.
Marvin X and the Sheriff of San Francisco who himself has suffered the addiction to the patriarchal mythology. Marvin X has liberated men and women with his 18 page pamphlet Mythology of Pussy and Dick. Once you get past the title, you will see Marvin X is about the liberation of men and women.
Young people fight over his Mythology of Pussy and Dick as if it were gold! They steal it from each other and refuse to give it back! Elders do the same, coast to coast, from Oakland to Philly!
You do not offer jobs, housing and education in the hood because you have found a better method of containment, jail and prison, at $50,000 to $60,000 per inmate per year. And let us not speak of juveniles at $250.000.00 per inmate per year. We have visited the juvenile in detention and they have told us that they cannot get out until they can be placed in a family.
Young people fight over his Mythology of Pussy and Dick as if it were gold! They steal it from each other and refuse to give it back! Elders do the same, coast to coast, from Oakland to Philly!
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Black Arts Movement and the United Front as taught by Amiri Baraka
Marvin X and Black Power Baby 2.0 Fred Hampton, Jr.
Marvin X says it is time to pass the baton to the next generation and let them do as they please. We shall guide them when and only when they ask for guidance! If they make mistakes, so what, didn't we make mistakes? Let us be there to lift them up and wash them off so they can continue until the revolution is won!
When my grandson was three years old, as we were walking down to Oakland's Lake Merritt, out of the blue he said to me,
"Grandpa, you can't save the world but I can!"
Top students of Marvin X's Academy of da Corner, Aries Jordan and Toya Williams
both students published their own books under the guidance of Master Teacher Marvin X
at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland
Dr. Julia Hare, the female Malcolm X
see her on Tavis Smiley's State of the Black World on Youtube.com
Marvin X is in tune with the revolution in Syria, especially since his son Abdul El Muhajir ( Darrel P. Jackmon) won a Fulbright to study at the University of Damascus, Syria RIP! He graduated in Arabic and Middle Eastern literature, University of California, Berkeley, with graduate work at Harvard U.
Amiri Baraka and Marvin X share a happy moment at the Baraka house in Newark, New Jersey
I shall not name all the friends in my life, but Amiri Baraka was a brother like no other! Nobody helped me more than Amiri Baraka. This is the simple truth!--Marvin X/El Muhajir
Marvin X speaking at the last rites of his friend Amiri Baraka
As-Salaam Alaikum, Imamu Amiri Baraka
Marvin X was highly honored to read with bassist Henry Grimes at the NYU tribute to AB. Performing with Henry Grimes was like performing with God! Only thing, I was so busy reading my work I could not fully enjoy the mystical music of Henry beside me. But I felt him in my jugular vain
Zena Allen, Black Arts Baby 2.0 accompanied Marvin X with his Again the Kora Poems
Tarika Lewis, violinist, artist/activist, first female member of the Black Panther Party
BAM baby 2.0
Aries Jordan, Black Arts Movement baby 2.0,
a student at Marvin X's Academy of da Corner,
Has published two books while mentored by Master Teacher Marvin X
Let me know if you are down with the 27 City tour AB laid out in this discussion of Drugs, Art and Revolution at Sista's Place in Brooklyn, as they discussed Marvin X's play One Day in the Life, a play about the drugs and the Black liberation movement, including his last encounter with Black Panther Huey P. Newton in a West Oakland Crack house. Marvin X also told of his relationship with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver during those crack years. Woody King produced the Ed Bullins version of Marvin X's last encounter with Huey and Eldridge, Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam.
As per AB, It is not about a big venue but even a little store front will do to spead the BAM message of truth and beauty.
We can do the BAM tour in the Black Churches across America, at least they own their own space. So we shall connect with the progressive preachers and spread truth and beauty as AB taught us.
Let us be clear about the united front AB taught us about. We must first unite with each other, yes, the Pan African community, then we can unite with others, progressive whites, Chicanos, Asians, Native Americans, Gays, Lesbians, et al
As per uniting with each other, let us come together with all segments of our society, teachers, preachers, politicians, judges, pimps, hustlers, whores, pimps, dope dealers. Once we come together, the struggle is over, the battle is won. Somebody better say Amen, Ache, Amin, Hotep!
Yes, once the black woman and man unite, alas, for the benefit of the children, and themselves, the struggle is over, freedom has arrived, and so let us unite as AB told us to do, connect the united front on all levels, family, community, nation. And there it is, a united nation of people, connecting with all other ethnic groups who seek sovereginty as well. Ishmael Reed says it was the Black Arts Movement that taught us to seek cultural sovereignty and all other ethnic groups followed suit.
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