Black Bird Press News & Review: Academy of da Corner students perform Marvin X's Mythology of Pussy and Dick

Black Bird Press News & Review: Academy of da Corner students perform Marvin X's Mythology of Pussy and Dick

Danny Glover and Selma James at St. Paul's Church, Sunday, April 26, 3-6pm, 2015

Message to the Black Man in America: Under the Shadow of Death!

                                  Under the Shadow of Death

By The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad 

We, the Black lost-found of our people here in America live under the shadow of death by way of cowardly enemies. Every one of us—the cowardly enemies seek our deaths, one way or another.

The cowardly enemies will not fight you as a brave man would fight you if they think that you would fight back. They will steal on you when you least expect an attack from them.

We live under the shadow of death. We fled from the cowardly enemy devils of the South, seeking refuge in the same cowardly enemies’ brother in the North. The enemy devils of the South followed us to the North to see that his brother of the North does not treat us any better than they did in the South.

They seek police jobs so that they can beat and kill us who are trying to escape. They seek to kill us, or get us killed, at any price. They do not care about our loyalty to them. In their hearts there is death for us, the Black Man in America.

Today, they hold out promises to you only to deceive you. They know that Allah (God) is here offering to seat us in heaven at once. And since hell is their appointed place, they are trying to get us to go to hell with them on false promises.

I have told you. Believe it or let it alone. We live "Under The Shadow of Death."

Will it be in the interest of the Cuban Government to give up Assata?

Mug shot of Assata Shakur, taken on May 2, 1973 Wikimedia Commons

The U.S. is not letting the matter of getting Assata Shakur extradited back to the States go gently into that good night, despite being told numerous times that Cuban officials have said that the topic is off the table.

According to State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke, now that President Barack Obama has moved the diplomatic ball further by taking Cuba off a list of nations that sponsor terrorism, the status of Shakur and other convicts who sought asylum in Cuba will be up for discussion, NorthJersey.com reports.

Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1977. She escaped prison and in 1984 was granted political asylum by Cuba, where she’s lived ever since.

On Wednesday the State Department said that talks with Cuban officials included mention of Shakur. However, Cuban officials have not responded to media inquiries about whether that’s true and, if so, what was actually said about the possibility of extraditing Shakur back to the U.S.

There is speculation that the State Department is giving greater weight to that possibility than what was actually discussed regarding Shakur.

Shakur’s lawyer, Lennox Hinds, a professor at Rutgers University, thinks that’s the case. “I think it is a spin being put out by the U.S. government. I have no reason to give any credence to it,” Hinds said. He told NorthJersey.com that Cuban authorities recently told him that Shakur’s political asylum would not be revoked.

Oh, Marvin, you never cease to amaze me!--Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf

 "Oh, Marvin, you never cease to amaze me, " Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf told Marvin X when she walked up on him at his Academy of Da Corner, 14th and Broadway, renamed Black Arts Movement District.

Ishmael Reed says, "If you want motivation and inspiration, don't spend all that money going to workshops and seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway and watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland." FYI, above pic is from the Feb. 7, 2015, BAM 50th Anniversary Celebration at Oakland's Laney College. photo by South Park Kenny Johnson

 
Master Teacher Marvin X at his Academy of da Corner, a multipurpose center, i.g., micro loan bank, literacy, mental health, (layman's grief and trauma counseling),  mentoring, economic independence or entrepreneurship training, event organizing, presently working on the Black Arts Movement's 27 City Tour in honor of Amiri Baraka. photo Adam Turner

 Academy of da Corner on Oakland's Lakeshore District, Saturday's only

Academy of da Corner, Berkeley (ASHBY BART STATION), Sunday's only

 Marvin X in heaven, i.e., in the presence of beautiful, intelligent, revolutionary women: L to R: Elaine Brown, former Chair of the Black Panther Party, Halifu Osumare, San Francisco State University radical student, member of the Black Students Union, founder of the Malonga Cultural Center, downtown Oakland, part of the Black Arts Movement District; Judy Juanita, member of the Black Panther Party and member of BAM, attended Merritt College along with Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Marvin X; wrote articles in the student paper on Marvin X as a budding Black Nationalist; editor of the Black Panther Party newspaper; Portia Anderson, author, a BAM baby; Kujichagulia, BAM baby; Aries Jordan, BAM baby, being mentored by Marvin X, whenever he comes in from outta space with his comrade Sun Ra. FYI, Marvin X is scheduled to be at the University of Chicago, May 22, 2015, in honor of Sun Ra, organized by Chicago musician/scholar David Boykin. Marvin X says, "When I get to Chicago, I'm going to the hood, 63rd and Cottage Grove! photo South Park Kenny Johnson

 Two Gemini madmen genius: Marvin X, May 29; Sun Ra, May 22

During 1972, both madmen lectured at the University of California, Berkeley in Black Studies.

Sun Ra joined Marvin X at his off campus theatre, Black Educational Theatre on O'farrel Street, between Fillmore and Webster, an old abandoned Greek Orthodox church. They produced a five hour production of Marvin's BAM classic one act play Flowers for the Trashman, musical version named Take Care of Business or TCB, music by Sun Ra. Production was at the Harding Theatre on Divisadero Street. The Sun Reporter reviewed the five hour concert without intermission. Production included the Sun Ra Arkestra, the Black Educational Theatre actors; the Raymond Sawyer dancers and the Ellendar Barnes Dancers; a cast of fifty.  Again, the concert was five hours without intermission, such is the nature of the Sun Ra/Marvin X experience. Somebody better say Ase'!

Chicago's David Boykin, organizer of the Sun Ra Conference at the University of Chicago

Mrs. Gay Plair Cobb, Director of Private Industry Council or PIC;MX, Mayor Schaaf, Dr. Elnora  T. Webb, President of Laney College, Dr. Nathan Hare, father of Black Studies, founder of the Black Scholar Magazine, clinical psychologist; Paul Cobb, Publisher of the Post News Group Newspapers

Left to Right: Paul Cobb, Publisher Post News Group; Dr. Leslee Stradford, Professor of Art, Rt. Col. Conway Jones, Jr., Marvin X, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf holding Marvin's grandchild Naima Joy, next to her is her  brother Jah Amiel; Laney College President, Dr. Elnora T. Webb, Dr. Nathan Hare, father of Black Studies (that never gave him a job, nowhere in America with the plethora of Black Studies Programs, Africana Studies, Pan African Studies, et al. Not one of them has offered Dr. Hare a position. Black intellectuals pimped Dr. Ben the same. My daughter gave me the term Pseudo conscious! She said, "Dad, we need to uneducate our people!"

 BAM Poet's Choir and Arkestra members, Zena Allen, Kora player, MX, violinist Tarika Lewis and choreographer/dancer Linda Johnson.

 The BAM Poet's Choir and Arkestra, featuring MX, David Murray and Earle Davis at the Malcolm X Jazz/Art Festival, Oakland CA, 2014

 BAM POET'S CHOIR AND ARKESTRA,

MALCOLM X JAZZ/ART FEST., OAKLAND 2014

 My friend the devil, Marvin X's memoir of Eldridge Cleaver. He finished the first draft in three weeks while on a national book tour, prompted by questions from his daughter Nefertiti at her house in Houston, TX.  He published each chapter daily in Chickenbones.com. It was literally a writing in progress for the world to see on the Internet. See the review by Rudolph Lewis on Chickenbones.com.

 Plato Negro at his Academy of da Corner, beside him is Gregory Fields, Academy of da Corner Professor of Law.

 Esteemed Professor emeritus of Black Studies at San Francisco State University, Dr. Oba T'Shaka. Occasion was the 80th birthday celebration of Dr. Nathan Hare at Geoffery's Inner Circle, a venue in the Black Arts Movement District, located at 14th and Franklin. Please support this Black owned venue. He is author of many books, one of the San Francisco Civil Rights icons.

BAM Divas: Rev. Tureada Mikell, BAM Choir Director Michelle LaChaux, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Tarika Lewis, violinist, activist, first female member of the Black Panther Party

Post News Group Publisher, Paul Cobb, and Marvin X, both grew up in West Oakland. Paul Cobb supports the projects of Marvin X, not only with his mouth but with his money! We appreciate you, Paul Cobb!--Marvin X. Jackmon

Jah Amiel, grandson of Marvin X, when he was three years old, on  the way to Lake Merritt, told his grandfather, "Grandfather, you can't save the world, but I can!" Oh, Jah Amiel, we pass the baton to you!--Marvin X

 Marvin X speaking to a graduate seminar in the Africana Studies Department, University of Houston, TX

 On a recent national book tour, University of Houston students engage Marvin X in the Africana Studies Department

Poet autographing books at University of Houston, TX

San Francisco Film Festival presents: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, directed by Stanley Nelson

 Black Panther Party revolutionary Queens

 Ancestor Dr. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party

 

Director Stanley Nelson

 

The Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, will be screened at the San Francisco Film Festival, Saturday, April 25, 2015, 3:00pm. Marvin X was interviewed for the film. He attended Oakland's Merritt College with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. He introduced Eldridge Cleaver to the BPP: "Marvin X was my teacher. Many of our comrades came through his Black Arts Theatre: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Emory Douglas, Samuel Napier, Judy Juanita, JoAnn Mitchell, et al," said Dr. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

 Eldridge Cleaver and Alprentis Bunchy Carter, boss of the Slauson Street Gang, later Chair of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party.  Cleaver and Bunchy served time together at Soledad Prison. George Jackson was there as well when the Black Culture Club was established with Cleaver and Bunchy as co-chairs. This club was the beginning of the American Prison Movement, spearheaded by North American Africans, the most oppressed group in the USA Babylon oligarchy!

George Jackson, Messiah of the Black Prison Movement, author of Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

 Black Panther Party co-founder, Bobby Seale and Marvin X

 Marvin X and Tarika Lewis, violinist and first female member of the Black Panther Party

 Actor Ossie Davis, Dr. Nathan Hare, Bobby Seale, Dr. Carlton Goodlette

 Angela Davis, Marvin X, Sonia Sanchez

 In 1969, Gov. Ronald Reagan removed Angela Davis from lecturing at UCLA because she was a Black Communist. At the same time he removed Nation of Islam poet Marvin X from teaching at Fresno State University because he was a Black Muslim, additionally, he had refused to fight in Vietnam for America, along with Muhammad Ali and all followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Marvin X not only refused to serve but under the influence of the Black Panther Party, he resisted by going to exile in Toronto, Canada, then a second time in Mexico City and Belize, British Honduras. He was deported back to the United States and served time in Terminal Island Federal Prison for his resistance and refusal to serve the white supremacy army of the USA.

Eldridge Cleaver and Marvin X, circa 1979, Oakland Ca.

We are pleased to invite you to a screening of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, which will be held next weekend at

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the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival!  

​Screening times are as follows: 

Saturday April 25, 2015 at 

3:00 p.m. 

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Sundance Kabuki Cinemas

​. Please RSVP as soon as possble to this email address, or call 646-262-7757.  We hope you can attend what promises to be an extraordinary event. 

Presented by the San Francisco Film Society, the Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. As it celebrates its 58th edition, SFIFF has screened more than 6,000 films, entertained and inspired roughly two million filmgoers and hosted thousands of prominent guests and luminaries. Press coverage of films, guests and events is extensive.

The Festival screening

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will be a Bay Area premiere

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and we are very excited

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presenting this  at the Festival.

​There will be an additional screening on Tuesday ​

April 28, 2015

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6:15 p.m. at theSundance Kabuki Cinemas​

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Tickets for that screening are available online at festival.sffs.org and at the Festival box office. located at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post Street (at Fillmore), Open daily 3:30-7:30 pm.  General admission tickets are $15, Senior/student/disabled tickets are $14. 

Best regards,
Nicole London

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Nicole London
Associate Producer| The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Firelight Films
324 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031