TOUR SCHEDULE OF THE WILD CRAZY RIDE CALLED THE MARVIN X EXPERIENCE

For booking poet, playwright, essayist, philosopher, activist, educator, Black Arts Movement co-founder Marvin X and/or the Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra, 27 City Tour: 510-200-4164/jmarvinx@yahoo.com

MARCH 31, 2015
BERKELEY CA
MEETING TO PROTEST RACISM AT BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL

MAY 22, 2015
CHICAGO ILL
CONFERENCE ON SUN RA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

May TBA
University of California, Merced, Kim McMillan Theatre Class

JUNE 5,6,7, 2015
FEATURED AUTHOR AT THE SACRAMENTO BOOK FAIR

JUNE 13, 2015
JUNETEENTH SAN FRANCISCO ON FILLMORE STREET

SAN DIEGO CA. TBA
MARVIN X READING

Students at Marvin's Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, Black Arts Movement District

Marvin X and Fred Hampton, Jr.

Berkeley High B-Tech students visited the poet to view his archives

Marvin X in St. Louis, Mo at book fair of Akbar Muhammad, Nat. Rep of Nation of Islam

In Santa Fe, New Mexico at the Lannan Foundation: a conversation with Amiri Baraka (RIP)

A manual for a mental health peer group to recover from the addiction to white supremacy

based on the 12 step model

Marvin X with the Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra, Malcolm X Jazz/Art Fest, Oakland, featuring David Murray and Earle Davis (Earle has performed with Marvin since Black Arts West Theatre, San Francisco, 1966).
photo Gene Hazzard

The Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra at the University of California, Merced

Marvin's most famous play Flowers for the Trashman included in the BAM reader

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf supports the Black Arts Movement's 50th Anniversary Celebration at Oakland's Laney College. Left to right: Mrs. Gay Plair Cobb, MX, Mayor Schaaf, Dr. Elnora T. Webb, President of Laney College, Dr. Nathan Hare, father of Black Studies, Oakland Post Publisher, Paul Cobb
photo South Park Kenny Johnson

Laney College BAM celebration's panel on women writers. Left to Right: Elaine Brown, Halifu Osumare, Judy Juanita, Portia Anderson, Kujichagulia, Aries Jordan; standing Marvin X, producer

A poetic moment: MX and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf

David Boykin invited Marvin X to the University of Chicago conference on Sun Ra, a mentor and associate of Marvin in the Black Arts Movement

Notes on Yemen: Crusaders, Zionists, Sunnis, Shiites

 

What a conundrum in the Middle East: proxy war in Yemen. One sectarian force supported by Iran, another by Saudi Arabia, along with the US and Zionist Israel and the Arab Uncle Abdullah regimes, i.e., Egypt, Jordan, Gulf States, Pakistan. If you wish, call it a war between the rich and the poor since Saudi Arabia and her running dogs, USA, Israel, Gulf States are rich compared to Yemen, one of the poorest nations in the world. Poor Obama claimed to have Yemen under control a few months ago, as he once claimed Iraq was under control and Afghanistan under control but we see the facts on the ground. Let us have enough common sense to go with the facts on the ground. We must conclude with a blind man, Ray Charles who sang to us The Danger Zone: Look around and you will see what's troubling me, the danger zone is everywhere....

But the conundrum doesn't end in Yemen. Can you figure out what's going on in Syria? Well, we can say again it is basically the fabulous four: Crusaders, Zionists, Sunnis and Shiites. Just to complicate matters more, throw in the Russians in the Syrian quagmire.

Go down from the road to Damascus to the Tigress and Euphrates. In this grand irony, the Crusaders and Zionists are in bed with Iran to stop ISIS. The Crusaders are serving as the air force for Iranian backed militias. Here we see the Crusaders playing both sides, for sure they are with the Sunnis via Saudi Arabia. Simultaneously, they are in cooperation with the Iranian backed Iraqi government.

Shall we stop here so you can rest your little head? We shall end with the supreme irony that the Crusaders are in talks with Shiite Iran to delay the day they announce possession of their Islamic bomb! Saudi Arabia has announced she must consider the Sunni Islamic bomb! And so it is. Know that when the armies are drawn close to Jerusalem, the end is near!

What is the Black Agenda is such global matters? Think globally, act locally. We see the white house burning in confusion and dread. As the former President Lula of Brazil said, "These blue eyed people think they are so smart, but look how they have messed up the world." The Americans don't have a clue what will happen tomorrow in the Middle East and Africa. They have dumb-foundedly set forces in motion for which they have no idea what the endgame shall be. They liberated Libya from Qadaffy, but what a terrible Pandora's box they unleashed with the plethora of weapons flowing from Libya throughout Africa to Afghanistan and all points in between.

White man, shut the fuck up, don't say shit about shit, silencio por favor!

North American Africans shall either go down with the American ship Titanic or jump into the ocean of truth and configure their own way as a nation that is the eight richest nation in the world with over two trillion dollars in national income. If we transcend poverty consciousness and understand our true wealth and how to use it, we will stop yakking about reparations and gather our economic wealth for communal benefit.

We will do the same with our political power. We will call a plebiscite or vote of the people to decide whether we shall establish a Nation of North American Africans or not. How in the hell can we call ourselves citizens in a land where we must continually renew the Voting Rights Act? And do American citizens get shot down like dogs by the police? Do American citizens kill each other at the drop of a hat? Are American citizens crowded into prisons and jails for being drug addicted and mentally ill, the so-called dual diagnosed? Imagine, true American citizens (whites) who robbed the poor of their basic wealth, i.e., home ownership, to the tune of trillions of dollars, have served no jail or prison time. The only white man serving time is Bernie Maddof and only because he robbed the rich!
--Marvin X/Nazzam Al Sudan El Muhajir
3/27/15

The Wild Crazy Ride called the Marvin X Experience: from Berkeley CA to Chicago ILL.

Marvin X in Berkeley CA

Hello Marvin you told me to send you a email about this event  I will have other speakers that who  have felt racism by  Berkeley  high schools adm and school district.  If you are free Tuesday March 31 come to the West Berkeley Library at 1135 university ave  I have the community room reserved  from 6:00pm - 8:00pm I would like your support, Mansur IDeen said he will be a part of this I hope that you can  come and speak out against racism in the Berkeley school district thanks and take care. --Ralph Walker

                                                                               

Marvin X in Chicago

Greetings Brother Marvin X - I'm a saxophonist in Chicago interested in bringing you to Chicago to participate in a panel discussion during a conference on Sun Ra and possibly arranging some other speaking engagements and possibly performing together in May of 2015, around sun Ra's Birthday May 22..... Peace. David Boykin

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Marvin X goin ta University of Chicago for Sun Ra Conference, May 22, 2015

Marvin X will be heading to the University of Chicago for the Sun Ra Conference, May 22, 2015. He will probably tour the area, will stops in Detroit and Milwaukee. Who knows, he may drop down to St. Louis, visit Ferguson, Black Lives Matter! But he is deeply honored sax man David Boykin invited him to participate in this celebration of Sun Ra, the supreme BAM artistic freedom fighter whose influence was widespread in the music world, transcending socalled Jazz, influencing George Clinton, Gladys Knight and many others with his space mythology, costumes, poetry, dance and music.

Marvin X has agreed to participate in a conference on his friend and mentor, Sun Ra. He was invited to be a panelist by Chicago musician David Boykin:

Greetings Brother Marvin X - I'm a saxophonist in Chicago interested in bringing you to Chciago to participate in a panel discussion during a conference on Sun Ra and possibly arranging some other speaking engagements and possibly performing together in May of 2015, around sun Ra's Birthday May 22..... Peace. David

 Marvin X and Sun Ra outside Marvin's Black Educational Theatre, San Francisco, 1972. Both were also teaching in Black Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Marvin X, David Murray and Earle Davis performed with Sun Ra's Arkestra

 Sun Ra's influence on Marvin X is clear when MX created  the BAM Poet's Choir and Arkestra on the spot at the University of California, Merced, BAM Conference, 2014.

 Amiri Baraka and Marvin X were both influenced by Sun Ra who was a member of The Harlem Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School, 1966. Sun Ra's poetry appears in the BAM anthology Black Fire, edited by Baraka, aka LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal.

 Sun Ra arranged the music for Baraka's Black Mass, also the music for Marvin X's musical version of Flowers for the Trashman, renamed Take Care of Business.