US Edition[Opinion] The remarkable life and afterlife of Malcolm X
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The remarkable life and afterlife of Malcolm X
This month marks the 100th birthday of Malcolm X, the charismatic and defiant Black leader who electrified America with his blunt talk on civil rights, before he was assassinated in 1965. Correspondent Mark Whitaker, author of the new book "The Afterlife of Malcolm X," looks at how his influence has grown following his death, and how his controversial views and piercing questions about Black identity and racial injustice still resonate in the fr…
He was admired and hated, but few had any opinion of him. Malcolm X, sixty years since his violent death, not only for American society was and still is a polarizing figure. They read it in high schools and colleges, it even appeared on a postage stamp, but it also has its own fat folder with the FBI. As historian Robert E. Terrill, in The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X (2010), lived several lives; he was a hooligan and convicted criminal, an …
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Malcolm X College, opens a new window by Daniel X. O'Neil, opens a new window / CC BY 2.0, opens a new window / Cropped from originalMinister, leader, and revolutionary. These three words are best used to describe Malcolm X, the revered Muslim minister who remains one of the most respected and controversial figures in American history. Charismatic, proactive, and dynamic, Malcolm X's legacy includes raising the self-esteem of African-Americans, …
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