Hip Hop Lines Up for Marvin X Benefit

May 15, 2010 from 10:00am to 2:00pm EDT
Location: 14th and Martin Luther King, Jr.downtown Oakland
Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2020

Hip Hop Lines Up for Marvin X BenefitRapper Young Nia will perform at the Benefit for Marvin X's Black Bird Press, celebrating the release of his latest book The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables and Fables, 2010, 309 pages,$100.00.Young Nia is daughter of Bay Area rap living legend Askari X. She is featured on the CD Tha Grand Entrance, a compilation featuring original tracks by the beats, rhymes & life youth.The benefit is Saturday, May 15, 2pm, at the African American Museum Library, 14th and Martin Luther King, Jr., downtown Oakland. The book is $100.00 but the event is free (give what you can).We will be honored with another daughter in the black arts, Timothy Reed, novelist. She is novelist, poet, professor Ishmael Reed's daughter. Also, singer Mechelle LaChaux's rapper child, Myelleamzi Johnson, aka Kiwi.She will read Parable of the Madpoet.Malcolm Shabazz Hoover, poet/educator, son of activist/educator Mary Hoover.His selection is Parable of the A Students.Hip Hop entrepreneur, filmmaker (Hip Hop the New World Order) Muhammida El Muhajir (Marvin X's daughter) confers with Mary J. Blige

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