Thursday, July 21, 2022

Black Panther Architect Fred T. Smith Joins Ancestors

 

ARCHITECT FRED T. SMITH HAS JOINED THE ANCESTORS


Poet/planner Marvin X and architect Fred Smith, both were student activists at Oakland's Merritt College, the West Coast hot-bed of Black Nationalist consciousness. Marvin X has learned his friend recently joined the ancestors. Rest in Peace, Fred!

photo Adam Turner


In my interview with my dear brother, Architect Fred T. Smith, RIP, for his vision of a Black Arts Movement Business District, he said, "Marvin, in my 30 years as an architect, you are to only person who asked me for an African-centered design....But if you look closely, American architecture is pervasive with African, aka Moorish design."

After weeks of delays  for one reason or another--you know North America Africans are the most busy people in the world, alas, most are busy doing absolutely nothing, to paraphrase ancestor James Brown, talking loud but doing nothing–Anyway, today, February 27, 2017, we finally met with architect Fred Smith to render our vision for him to consider design plans for Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District along the 14th Street corridor, from the lower bottom to Lake Merritt. He requested a meeting with members of the BAMBD community planning team before designing his idea for the BAMBD. When I initially asked him to give us his concepts, he stated that it should not be my idea but a communal effort.

Today he reiterated his initial point, stating we need a meeting of community minds because the BAMBD is a massive project that includes one hundred blocks and we must consider an almost block by block design plan. He informed me that although I am one of the chief visionaries, it will and must take a communal vision. We must allow community input for those hundred blocks. What do the people see, what do they want? The BAMBD is bigger than any one mind can conceive. And, he noted, as it is part of the City of Oakland's Downtown Plan for the next twenty-five to fifty years, we need ideas from the generation who will be here when we are gone, i.e., the young people.

Adam Turner, designer of the BAM/BAMBD newspaper, The Movement, was elated to be privy to the conversation as his interests are in design, especially as a child of the computer design era. The architect informed him that some ideas of his era are not always sound and will not pass the test of planning and  construction. Fred noted the first priority of design is safety. Will the building withstand the plethora of earthquakes the Bay Area is known to experience? He said bricks will not suffice in this area. Although I said nothing on this point, my mind raced to the 1989 earthquake that caught me at 2nd and Mission, escaping bricks that rained down from buildings across the street from where I took shelter.

But the priority item of our discussion was the architectural design for the Black Arts Movement  Business District. From the architectural design viewpoint, how would it look? Firstly, Fred noted, we must understand the architectural design history of America. Who designed  it, who built it? Of course, North American Africans! Thus, he said we need not  reinvent the wheel since many of our Afro-centric designs are already in place coast to coast in building construction from the White House to the Oakland Container Port, created by Thomas Berkely. Since he attended the funeral last week of Queen Mother Makinya, I reminded him of  the comment someone made, maybe Tarika Lewis, a relative, who said look around this chapel (Evergreen Cemetery), Queen Mother is here doing her thing. Look at the Egyptian architecture. 

Fred noted so-called Spanish architecture is Moorish, i.e. African, Arab. Greek and Roman architecture is Kemetic or Egyptian, i.e., African. I asked him what would be considered Afro-centric architecture in the modern era. Well, be clear that we need not reinvent the wheel since so much African design is already here, we just need to build on it. I tourned Adam, "Adam, you know my screen door has the Sankofa symbols in  the wrought iron, which Fred noted was traditional African metal work. Further, I told Adam, if recall the picture of my daughter Muhammida and poet Samantha, standing by a fence in Accra, the Sankofa symbol is in the wrought iron fence. 

Fred said it  would be nice if BAMBD had the money to send me to Africa to study modern African building design. Then my friend, former Merritt College study body president and gun toting Black Panther Party member, hit me with a knock out punch. "Marvin, in all my years as an architect, I have never had the discussion we are having now about Afro-centric design! For sure it's not taught in the schools. But no one has ever asked me to design an Afro-centric structure. I designed a house for one brother but he wanted Tudor architecture so I went to England to check out their designs. Had a great time, but never has anyone come to me as you have today. 

When I was exiled in Mexico City as a draft resister to the imperialist war in Vietnam, I checked out the building designs and noted they reflected Mexican culture in colors and structure. So what would be the African tradition in design? He said it would be colors, arches, columns, pyramid motifs. He said, "Marvin, I've seen your plays and they reflect an African architectural design." He lost me here but the artist often has no idea what critical minds see in their work. But I do know my concept of ritual theatre is African and aboriginal in structure. For example, there is no separation between actors and audience, alas, they are one!

Again, Fred noted designing a district is a massive undertaking that must be communal with a vision of the future. Afro-futurists, step to the front of the line and represent. We pass the baton to you! 

In closing, Fred noted that young North American African architects should be given internships with developers so they can enter the field because they are most often excluded and once the developers make deals with white supremacy unions and get pass the planning commission, they sail home to continue white supremacy development, aka, gentrification or ethnic cleansing in design, construction and occupation when the project is completed. 

We must note that Carmel has a North American African heading their construction of a 600 unit apartment complex in the BAMBD at 14th and Franklin. But only ten per cent or 60 of the 600 units are below market rate. BAMBD is working on a benefits package with Carmel but it is for below market retail space. In a meeting with Carmel to have them consider BAMBD, my daughter, Attorney Amira Jackmon, a bonds attorney who deals with billion dollar bonds on a daily basis, noted the Carmel that they should up the percentage of below market rate units to 20%. The BAMBD benefits team has incorporated Attorney Jackmon's investment partnership proposal in its benefits package, so we shall see. 

Architect Fred Smith noted that we should not have an adversarial relationship with developers because they are going to build what they want, especially once they get pass the planning commission. Of course, I say we need to have our own people on the planning commissions of all cities where we reside, otherwise, the planning commission will acquiesce to developers, lobbyists and slimy, slothful politicians. I wish somebody would give me an Amen. I wish somebody would say Ache!

--Marvin X, Planner, BAMBD/BAM, 2017


Tuesday, July 19, 2022

IN MEMORIAM, DINGANE JOSEPH GONCALVES, PUBLISHER/EDITOR, JOURNAL OF BLACK POETRY

 


Art by Foad Satterfield

In Memoriam, Marsha Robinson Satterfield, 

Berkeley native, Oakland High educator, Literary scholar, poet, mother

Measure, 2022, Acrylic x canvas, 72”x84”

Courtesy of Maybaum Gallery




IN MEMORIAM 

DINGNE JOSEPH GONCALVES


SUNRISE 10.19.37, SUNSET 3.18.22

Art by Ben Caldwell


Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Notes from Off the Record by Marvin X

       Marvin X at the University of Chicago, Sun Ra Conference on Afro-Futurism
       photo Burrell Sunrise, 2015



Note #1 We understand no part of NO or PC pseudo Woke zombies, sycophants of the 
global medical dictatorship. Elijah Muhammad taught us the myth of Yakub, based on three workers, i.e., 
the doctor, nurse and undertaker. In the neo-Yakubian world, Dr. Fauci is Yakub, in league 
with the globalists and Eugenicists, alas, Hillary's shero is Margaret Sanger, Mother 
of murdering black babies, yes, in association with the Bill Gates family. If you survive Covid, 
Monkey Pox and the plethora of toxins awaiting you from the Yakubian world, including the 
fake war in the Ukraine, the fake gas crisis, alas, how can there be a gas crisis when 
America was energy independent a few months ago? 

This world is far beyond fake news. Chris Rock, yes, before he got slapped, said of women, 
"Everything about you is a lie!" Fake eyes, hair, lips, hips, pussy, ass, mind, heart, and soul. 
And this goes for the men too. They are as fake as fake can get. These days, it is said men 
can have a cycle and babies. Which one would you like to buy from me, the Brooklyn Bridge 
or the Golden Gate Bridge?

Let me ramble on in my off the record notes. And I have told people not to tell me 
shit on the phone, email, FB, Twitter, Instagram or Tic Tock, don't tell me shit because 
when I quote you you deny you ever told me the truth that you told me. Let us continue.

The American nation spends $700 billion on its annual defense budget, yes, she is 
the number one arms merchant of the world. She just sold Ukraine $40 billion 
dollars of guns. And yet she is totally overwhelmed by mass murder in America. 
I must repeatedly quote James Baldwin, "The murder of my child will not make 
your child safe!" And further, "The notion of white supremacy has led white people 
to rationalizations so fantastic it approaches the pathological."

I am so thankful for the black woman at Emory University who authored 
the just released book called 2, the most thorough deconstruction of the 2nd 
Amendment, and alas, she discovered the Second Amendment was, in the deep 
structure, about Negroes With Guns (Robert F. Williams). In my December, 
1968, interview with James Baldwin at his New York apartment, he said, 
"Nothing else happened here but us." The book 2 made it clear to me the 
2nd Amendment was about keeping guns out of the hands of North American 
Africans, from slavery down to the end of the Civil War when 200,000 Black 
Troops were disarmed while the Confederate losers of the war returned home 
with their weapons to instill fear and terror on the North American Africans that 
persists down to the present moment. Explain to me how and why a NAA 
can be shot 60 times for driving while black or running while black! Meanwhile, 
a white boy in Highland, Ill, suburb of Chicago where black on black homicide 
is unceasing, can commit mass murder but is arrested without incident. America is 
beyond insane! What nation spends $700 billion on national 
security, yet its borders allow in every filthy unclean bird? You allow 
across your border migrants suffering pervasive poverty, ignorance and disease. 
Yet you do not address these issues within your own citizens.
You are clearly in league with global drug cartels who smuggle meth, fentanyl 
and other drugs that kill thousands of Americans yearly, to say nothing of. 
the opioids sold by the pharmaceutical industry in conspiracy with the Yakubian 
Medical Dictatorship. 

America is Babylon the Great Whore, full of liars and murderers, thieves 
and robbers, the blood suckers of the poor. She calls other nations Banana 
Republics and shit holes, then immediately reveals herself as the Chief Banana 
Republic and shit hole!. A few days ago she was gas independent but is now 
dependent after allowing green heads to dictate her economic and national 
security. There is no sane planning policy, no sane anything, only a plethora 
of fake everything. And this is not hyperbole but reality. 

What parents of rational minds will send their children to public schools 
that are firstly, insecure and secondly ideological and educational shit 
holes with the dominant curriculum not ABCs but a degenerate concern 
with birds and bees. And the supreme irony is that the children are taught 
birds can be bees and bees can be birds. 
Enough!
--Marvin X
7/7/22 

The indefatigable, peripatetic Marvin X's Black Bird Press just edited and
published Endemic Racism in America by Rt. Congressman William L. Clay, Sr.
The poet Ishmael Reed called him "Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland," and Dr.
Cornel West described him as  "The African Socrates in the hood." Bob Holman said he is
"The USAs Rumi, Hafez and Saadi," 

Marvin X is currently organizing the Black Street Vendors Association in Oakland. 
He also publishers magazines such as Outlaw, Black Street, and Black Bird Press News 
and Review. Author of over thirty books, he is also a founder of the Black Arts Movement 
and Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District.

He's taught at Fresno State University, San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, UC
San Diego, Mills College, Laney and Merritt Colleges, the University of Nevada, Reno and elsewhere.
Marvin X reads and speaks coast to coast. Send letter of invitation to jmarvinx@yahoo.com.

Sunday, July 3, 2022

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Parable of Jack Johnson and Marvin X at Oakland's Lake Merritt

 Parable of Jack Johnson

Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, circa 1910. When a Southern town charged him a then ridiculously expensive $50 for speeding, he peeled off a $100 bill from his bankroll and said "Keep it. I intend to come back this way."

r/OldSchoolCool - Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, circa 1910. When a Southern town charged him a then ridiculously expensive $50 for speeding, he peeled off a $100 bill from his bankroll and said "Keep it. I intend to come back this way."




General Egyptsia, Membership Manager of the Black Vendors Association

photo Jim Dennis

Today Marvin X was double parked at Lake Merritt, conversing with General Egyptsia, the Manager of the Black Street Vendors Association. She was bringing him up to date on the vendor situation at the Lake. Since the City of Oakland has not been able to remove Black Street Vendors from the lake at the request of lake residents and merchants, simply because the grass roots Vendors have stood their ground. You know that ole' church song from the Civil Rights movement, I Shall Not Be Moved! Grass Roots hustlers don't give a damn about the politics of vending at the Lake. It's a survival thang with the hustling Street Vendors. Also, a few of them have heard there's a State Law SB946 on Street Vending, the result of the 30,000 Latinos and Latinas on the streets of Los Angeles who Unified to make Governor Jerry Brown sign. But common sense makes the grass roots Vendors Stand Their Ground!
Marvin X, the sole Black Street Vendor on the streets of Oakland for years at 14th and Broadway, who defied police harassment under the color of law, was awarded a grant to organize Black Street Vendors.
As he double parked to get an update from General Egyptsia, the Oakland PD, aka, pigs, came up behind him and over the loudspeaker commanded him to move or get a citation. Being recalcitrant and incorrigible, Marvin X thought about replying to the pigs in the manner of our ancestor Jack Johnson.
If you know Black History, the story goes that the first Black heavyweight champion was stopped for speeding through town in his expensive car, with a white woman on board. When the pigs told him the fine, he paid double, informing them he would be speeding on the way back!
Marvin X thought about telling the Oakland pigs to give two citations since he will be back later and most likely will be double parked!
--Marvin X
7/2/22
May be an image of 3 people, people standing and indoor
Marvin X, Violinist Tarika Lewis and Percussionist Tacuma King in the Tenderloin, SF.

Friday, July 1, 2022

Parable of Thieves

 Parable of Thieves


They stole us

stole our land

statues holy trees cut down

rum for diamonds, gold salt

but slaves most of all

how dare they work us for centuries

they grew rich and fat

we starved on hog guts

horse food made gourmet

how about the good ship jesus

full of souls wallowing in shit piss blood

and the white hats are good people

dutiful slaves evil

revolt evil resistance evil

demand reparations evil

critical race theory evil

don't tell our children we are devils like Elijah said

that's hate the hate produced

lie about the jeffersons not the tv nigger jeffersons

the real one with sally hemming in the next room with children in the dark

don't tell this american history lie lie lie

let our children eat lies til they puke

democrats lie republications same

lies lies lies

fatherfuckers and motherfuckers of lies.

you shall drown in denial

coke to death on lies

truth confounds you

what is truth your students ask

never heard of it smelled it kissed it

truth trampled under foot

enjoy yourself

but every statute shall return to africa

every boat full of souls longing for home at last. at last. at last.

--Marvin X

7/1/22

Oakland's Black Bird Press meets promised release date of Endemic Racism in America by Retired Congressman William L. Clay, Sr.

Oakland's Black Bird Press met its promised release date of July 1st for Endemic Racism in America by Retired Congressman William L Clay, Sr., one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus. BBP Publisher and Editor Marvin X informed the  91 year old Congressman that his book was shipped out today as promised. He uses his books to raise money for his scholarship fund that has given 350 scholarships over the years. One of his recipients recently took command of the Michael Jordan tennis shoes at NIKE. 


Congressman Clay informed BBP Publisher Marvin X that he has three more titles for the indefatigable Poet Publisher. 


Endemic Racism in America by Retired Congressman William L Clay,Sr.,  a Black Bird Press Book,  Edited by Marvin X, July 1st release date, paperback,  231 pages. For your copy, please send a generous donation to the William L Clay Scholarship Fund:
14917 Claude Lane, Silver Spring, MD, 20905

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Last Days of Whitey

 The Last Days of Whitey






We are now in the last days of Whitey. We know hubris or self pride is the stuff of dramatic tragedy. Hubris was well known in Greek tragedy and especially in the plays of Shakespeare. The historical record is pervasive with nations and civilizations such as Greece and Rome who came to their end when hubris overwhelmed their sense of reality. As we know, psychosis is the total break with reality, when the delusional persons mind-set reaches the severe with full-blown mental atrophy. Hubris combined with moral depravity hastens the downfall of civilizations, especially when accentuated with economic and military adventurism. 

Do these last days of Whitey fit the prescription of the American endgame, wherein she has overextended herself by an addiction to narcissism that lies in the deep structure of the national hubris, also known as white supremacy? The condition is so severe most people cannot unravel the conundrum. The psycholinguistic crisis is overwhelming itself. What shall we call ourselves, what noun, pronoun, what are we today and what if we decide to transform into some other human or demonic configuration in the morning? What if our grand desire is to kill children in the womb, or in the schools, in the hoods, or the global eternal wars? After spending 700 billion annually for the military, how in the hell can we expect our children to be safe at home? Baldwin told you, "The murder of my child will not make your child safe!"

You supply guns, dope and miseducation in the hood, mass incarceration that perpetuates destruction of family and social harmony, then you are utterly shocked when drug addiction and overdoses proliferate suburbs and rural towns and cities. You are so demonic that after the pharmaceutical industry floods communities with opioids, you allow Chinese and Latin American drug cartels to overwhelm America with fentanyl. Yes, your banks are more than happy to do the money laundry, after all, America is about money and nothing else.  

As we know, hubris is a mental blindness, saturated with arrogance, so even though examples of nations in atrophy abound, our psychosis includes mental blindness to the extent we see other nations in or on the way to destruction but do not imagine their fate shall be ours. Alas, you created Banana Republics but you cannot conceive that you are speeding toward the Banana Republic yourself. You are the greatest nation in the world and you run out of baby food. A short time ago you were oil independent but after allowing green heads to plan your future, you see Green may be great for the future but it can do nothing for $7.00 gallon gas in California. And don't speak of your useless $700 billion national security budget when you cannot secure your border from every filthy unclean bird as the Bible says. Yes, Babylon has become the habitation of devils. You cry about the low birth rate of Whitey while you promote abortion at every turn. But that's not enough depravity. Sun Ra said, "You so evil the devil don't want you in hell!" Now you want to cut the penis off boy children and put them in dresses. It is an abomination that the primitive societies avoided with manhood and womanhood training rites so there was a clear and precise distinction between genders. The girls knew they were women after their first cycle. The boys knew they were men when they returned from the woods and forests with the lion on their shoulders. Yes, simple, common sense shit that defies the people Smarter Than God, the title of my poem. 

Whitey cannot stop his rush across the precipice, for he is in full blown addiction to the insanity of white supremacy, a psychosis or total break with reality. Again, Baldwin said it best, so I paraphrase, "The notion of white supremacy has driven white people to rationalizations so fantastic it approaches the pathological." 

Whitey's end is your beginning, for sure you have never enjoyed a nano second of freedom, justice and equality since you were kidnapped and brought to the hells of North America. All you've known is slavery, suffering and death. NO self-determination, no sovereignty. Yeah, Lincoln freed you, then gave you the 13th  Amendment to put your black asses back in slavery under the US Constitution with involuntary servitude down to the present moment. So let Whitey go and be thankful God is handling the matter as He did with Job. What did God tell the devil, "You can do anything to Job but kill him." So rejoice North American Africans, and demand nothing less than your 40 acres and cash in the trillions for you long overdue reparations. 


--Marvin X
6/21/22 

Saturday, June 18, 2022

Marvin X at Berkeley Juneteenth, Sunday, June 19, 2022

We heard by the Black Bird that Marvin X's Outlaw Magazine was given out at Fresno's Juneteenth at the Convention Center. It was also distributed at Berkeley Juneteenth. Marvin X's grandchildren assisted the poet distributing his magazines and books. The poet/scholar autographed his works for the folks.


Naima, granddaughter, Marvin X, Jahmiel, grandson

photo Adam Turner


Marvin X

photo Adam Turner

Marvin X

photo Harrison Chastang
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Was Monk

 


Was Monk


Was Monk here there

on other side of squares

where was Monk in time on time beyond time

Did you do Monk time or listen 

mind blasted against time

who makes time

grows time

beats rhythms energies 

if you please

from where Monk's world

did you ever get there

how could you when you square

Did Monk ever come to your world time rhythms beats

Monk danced

did you watch his feet as he stepped in Monk's world

beyond square ass low life world of nothingness make believe

Leave Monk alone in sacred space

Sonny said Space is the Place

Monk said Round Midnight is the right time

Round Midnight Round Midnight.

--Marvin X

Monday, June 13, 2022

Please give a generous donation to the memorial for Journal of Black Poetry Publisher/Editor Dingane Jose Goncalves


Hotep,

I thought you might be interested in supporting this GoFundMe, https://gofund.me/13c554f3

Even a small donation could help Marvin X and Planners reach their fundraising goal. And if you can't make a donation, it would be great if you could share the fundraiser to help spread the word.

Thanks for taking a look! Black Power to the People. All power to the People!
Marvin X
Co-Founder, National Black Arts Movement

Tentative Memorial Program for Dingane Joe Goncalves, Founder,The Journal of Black Poetry 
  
Venue, East Oakland Black Cultural Zone, CDC, Carolyn Johnson, CEO
73rd and MacArthur,  Oakland 
  
Saturday,  August 27, 2022
2-6PM

1. Musical interlude,  Tarika Lewis, et al.
2. Youth Poets Open Mike
3. Rev. Mutima Imani, Libation and Mistress of Ceremony 
4. Norman Brown,  Welcome 
5. Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Bryant Bolling 
6. Obituary,  Dr. Oba T'shaka 
7.Poem by Oakland's First Poet Laureate,  Dr. Ayodele 
8. Black Arts Movement poets
Askia Toure,  Haki,  Last Poets,  Avotcja, devorah major, Kalamu ya Salaam, Phavia Kujichagulia, Judy Juanita, Fritz Pointer, Marvin X 
9. Eulogy,  Dr. Sonia Sanchez 
10. Words from Goncalves family, Barbara, Abina, Amma,Sabira
11. Music by Violinist Tarika Lewis
12 Comments 3 min ea 
12. Repast
  
Sponsors
Carolyn Johnson,  Black Cultural Zone CDC 
Dr. Ayodele Nzinga,  Black Arts Movement Business District CDC, City of Oakland’s first Poet Laureate 
Delores Nochi Cooper,  Founder, Berkeley Juneteenth Association 
Ustadi Kabiri,  Junkyard Cultural Project 
Dr. Oba T'shaka,  Emeritus Professor, Black Studies, San Francisco State University
Cinnabar, Laney College 
Marvin X,  Black Arts Movement, Black Bird Press, Black Vendors Association 
  



Left to right Dingane Jose Goncalves, Publisher and Editor of the Journal of Black Poetry. On right his brother Dominic Goncalves. The Journal of Black Poetry was the Bible of the 60s Pan African Poetry Revolution. Guest Editors included Haki Madhubuti, Askia Toure, Marvin X et al. Kalamu ya Salaam wrote, "Playwright Ed Bullins and poet Marvin X had established Black Arts West, and Dingane Joe Goncalves had founded the Journal of Black Poetry (1966). This grouping of Ed Bullins, Dingane Joe Goncalves, LeRoi JonesSonia SanchezAskia M. Touré, and Marvin X became a major nucleus of Black Arts leadership." Nikki Giovanni's first published poem appeared in the Journal of Black Poetry. If you were a Black poet in the 60s, no matter from America, Africa, the Caribbean or Asia, you were welcome to publish in the Journal of Black Poetry. Only Black World Magazine had a wider circulation but it didn't match the number of poets published in JBP. Thank you Dingane Jose Goncalves, you Cape Verde, Boston African! LOL

Although not pictured, Dingane Jose Goncalves was on the staff of Black Dialogue Magazine, along with (Left to right) Aubrey LaBrie, Marvin X, Abdul LaBrie, Al Young, Arthur Sheridan and Duke Williams. It was because Black Dialogue Magazine was inundated with poetry that Dingane founded The Journal of Black Poetry. 


Poet Playwright Ed Bullins RiP, contributed to the Journal of Black Poetry



Sonia Sanchez and Dingane were dear friends and comrades in the BAM revolution.


Nikki Giovanni's first published poem appeared in the Journal of Black Poetry.






Left to Right: LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and Larry Neal, Co-Editors of the BAM anthology Black Fire


Journal of Black Poetry, Marvin X Guest Editor
Art by Ben Caldwell




The Journal of Black Poetry featured this collection of leaflets promoting the Black Arts Movement coast to coast. Upper left is a Sun Ra and Poets (Askia Toure, The Last Poets, Marvin X, et al.) at the New Lafayette Theatre's
Workshop. Upper right leaflet promotes Marvin X's refusal to fight in Vietnam. Lower left is LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) at the San Francisco Black House. Lower right is a leaflet promoting the Last Poets at Harlem venue The East Winds.
Journal of Black Poetry, Marvin X Guest Editor


Haki Madhubuti contributed to the Journal of Black Poetry


Co-Founder of the Black Arts Movement and Co-Editors of the Journal of Black Poetry, Askia Toure and Marvin X