!['WRITING IS FIGHTING! DECLARING WAR ON PAPER Tuesday 7/17/18 â 8pm (eastern time) Steaming live on www.timeforanawakening.com The Black Reality Think Tank will feature one the great African American poets and writers of our time, Marvin X. Jackmon. Because of X's affiliations with Black Panther activists of the day (Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver) and his work in Black theater with Ed Bullins, X is considered one of the major essayists and playwrights of the Black Aesthetics Movement.[2] Marvin attended Oaklandâs Merritt College where he encountered fellow students who organized the Black Panther Party. He indicates they taught him Black Nationalism. Marvinâs first play Flowers for the Trashman was produced by the Drama department at San Francisco State University, 1965. Marvin X went on to establish his own Black Arts West Theatre in the Fillmore, 1966, along with playwright Ed Bullins. Months later Marvin would co-found Black House with Eldridge Cleaver, 1967. Marvin introduced Eldridge Cleaver to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Eldridge immediately joined the Black Panther Party. Huey Newton said, âMarvin X was my teacher, many of our comrades came from his Black Arts Theatre: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Emory Douglas and Samuel Napier.â One of the movers and shakers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) Marvin X has published 30 books, including essays, poetry, and his autobiography Somethinâ Proper. Important books include Fly to Allah, poems, Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality, essays on consciousness, and How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, a manual based on the 12 step Recovery model.'](http://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p160x160/37070670_2086906248234575_8435230192120627200_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=1d5e8944dfe0a5007c0e3c92749cee42&oe=5C13339C)
The Black Reality Think Tank will feature one the great African American poets and writers of our time, Marvin X. Jackmon. Because of X’s affiliations with Black Panther activists of the day (Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver) and his work in Black theater with Ed Bullins, X is considered one of the major essayists and playwrights of the Black Aesthetics Movement.