Thursday, October 14, 2010

Preview #14, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue

Preview #14,

Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue

Guest Editor, Marvin X

Deadline for submissions November 15

Send submission to jmarvinx@yahoo.com,

Include bio, pic, MS Word attachment

Neil Callender, Boston MA

The Maroon is Dead! Long Live the Maroon!

On the night Malcolm died, tough men, hewn from

Louisiana's woodlands and paper mills, and from

the battlefields of Europe and Korea gathered in their

town of Bogalus

October 14, 2010 -

As participants from the U.S. at the 25th National Gathering of Women (XXV Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres) in Paraná, Argentina we denounce the attacks by rightwing Catholics on feminists at the workshops on
"Women, Contraception and Abortion" which resulted in a number of injuries and the hospitalization of one activist.

This gathering is an historic victory by Argentine women and is a crucial place for the sharing of experiences as well as for strategizing on how to advance

October 14, 2010

Raynard Jackson

With the mid-term elections fast approaching, I thought this would be a good time to give my views on the state of the political landscape.

Let me start by saying publically what I have been telling friends all year—if you are an incumbent, you will not be getting my vote!

Politicians from both parties have made a mockery of our political process. I was taught as a child that in a democracy—the majority rules. But, no one notified our U.S. Senate because in order t

Now Available from Black Bird Press:Mythology of Pussy and Dick

This book empowered me. I didn’t know I had that much power!—Young sister

It helped me step up my game!—Young brother

Thank you, thank you, for writing this. I am going to make my son and daughter read it.—A Mother

Mythology

of Pussy and Dick

toward

Healthy Psychosocial

Sexuality

Marvin X

Warning: Contains explicit language

And youth who otherwise don't read, do read this book and even squabble over ownership, as if it were black gold!

--Paradi

Preview #12, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue

Preview #12, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue

Deadline for submissions extended to November 12, 2010

We especially want to hear from hip hop poets, spoken word artists, conscious rappers

Send your submission to Guest Editor, Marvin X, jmarvinx@yahoo.com, include brief bio, pic, MS Word attachment

Submissions received from the following:

Askia Toure
Amiri Baraka
Rudolph Lewis
Al Young
Ishmael Reed
Mona Lisa Saloy
Gwendolyn Mitchell
Haki Mad

This is fast running life. People have everything except time. They have potential to earn money and own properties in bulk but don’t have sufficient time to manage their properties. Especially life of people of American State is too fast. People in Maryland –one of the American states have lots of properties but they are unable to draw profit out of them. Managing property is not only function of time but also of contact. People do not have good social association to rent properties at lucrativ

HOW THE MASS MEDIA IS BEING USED AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN WHITE DOMINANCE

Many African Americans now holds the opinion that in the face of greater gained opportunities that many within their race became their own worst enemies. It is not uncommon to hear these negative sentiments about their own race now echoed by many African Americans themselves—they that consider themselves as being exceptions to this norm. This perception often engenders profound feelings of immense humiliati

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Senator Barbara Boxer--In Search of My Soul Sister

In Search of My Soul Sister

After a lifetime of fears, doubts, ambivalence and general paranoia (myessential mental state) about the feminine gender, I recently concluded,based on six decades of interaction, that the black woman was, afterall is said and done, my friend, and that she has never wanted to beanything other than my friend, helper, lover and mate, really, foreternity, if I could have ever been shackled to her t

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Parable of the Return of Gov. Moonbeam

Brown’s records are “under lock and key” at the University of Southern California

Parable of the Return of Gov. Moonbeam

California is

Monday, October 11, 2010

Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraq's Minister of Oil, Marvin X's Teacher

Iraq's oil windfall

"Iraq Proven Oil Reserves Rise Significantly " declares the Wall Street Journal, echoing a number of other news sources.

But are they "proven"?

So far, we have only assurances from the Iraq's oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani*:

These aren't random figures, rather they were the results of deep surveyscarried out by the ministry's oil reservoir company

Mostly invisible to the hoards of walkers and runners around the lake who never swerve to avoid a collision or e