Marvin X Book Project

left to right Dr. Ellen McLarney, Duke University Professor, Judy Juanita, Black Arts Movement and Black Panther Party activist,
novelist; poet, playwright, essayist Marvin X. Professor Ellen McLarney came to Oakland to interview Marvin X for his chapter in her forthcoming book on black Islamic writers.

On Saturday, December  7, 2019, there will be a benefit to raise money to print and reprint the books of Marvin X.
The event will be a conversation with Dr Cornel West and Marvin X at St. Paul's Church Berkeley. Tickets available on Eventbrite for$25.00. A donation to this GoFundMe campaign of $100.00 or more will get you a ticket to the VIP reception to meet and greet the authors. 



Marvin X books to print and/or reprint


Mythology of Pussy and Dick
(Poetic Notes on the Human Condition in the MeToo Era)
Fly to Allah, poems
Land of My Daughters, poems
Love and War, poems
In the Crazy House Called America, essays
Beyond Religion toward Spirituality, essays
Wish I could tell you the Truth, essays
Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables,Fables
Memoir of Eldridge Cleaver, My Friend the Devil
How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy
Son of Man, proverbs
Woman, Man's Best Friend, proverbs,poems, parables, songs
Somethin' Proper, autobiography




Marvin X has given over a half century of his life to the Black Arts/Black Liberation Movement. He has endured exile, jail, prison, banned from teaching at universities and colleges , yet , he remains tenacious, indefatigable and peripatetic.  

left to right Mrs. Amina Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Marvin X and Amiri Baraka at the memorial service for Dr Betty Shabazz, Riverside Church, NYC