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Books by & About Malcolm X
Malcolm X:
The Man and His Times /
Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X
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Martin and Malcolm and America
Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the
Caribbean
The Black Muslims in America
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X /
Malcolm X Speaks /
By Any Means Necessary
February 1965: The Final Speeches /
For Malcolm: Poems on the Life and Death of Malcolm X
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Facebook Remembers Malcolm X
Nathan Hare /
Jean Damu /
Kwame Zulu Shabazz /April Mojica
Nathan Hare: I've been thinking this was the day
they killed Malcolm X but keep wondering why I haven't
seen or heard anything all day.
Jean Damu:
I'm OK with us not remembering the date of
Malcolm's assassination. But I live n Berkeley and his
birthday is a city holiday each May 19. This is
convenient for me because May19 is also Ho Chi Minh's
birthday-2 for the price of one. The dynamics of
celebration are curious to me. The US nation always
memorializes JFK's assassination but never his. Just the
opposite for MLK. And while on the topic, tomorrow Feb.
23 is W.E.B. DuBois's birthday. Anyone besides me
hoisting a cold one to The Doctor?
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Nathan Hare: We're basically on the
same page. I was speaking of remembering and
agree with memorializing, if we're going to
get into ceremony, instead of celebration.
Holidays are another matter, since the
fallen may have preferred us to work. I'm
with you on Du Bois and it is easy for me to
remember it -- aside from my interest in Du
Bois and having known his . . . See More
second wife Shirley and her son David --
because the next day, February 24th, is my
late mother's birthday. So it's easy to see
these things can get out of hand.
P.S. I know my mother wouldn't want me to
take off from work! Anyway, have a good day,
whichever. Always good to hear from you.
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Jean Damu:
DuBois had impeccable timing. Who among us would
have had the foresight to be born during Black History
Month and to die on the day MLK delivered his "I have a
dream" speech? I always value reading your writings Dr.
Hare. Peace.
Rudolph Lewis: Dr. Hare, it is good to remind us
that we don't remember and don't revisit Malcolm and his
thought neither on his birthday nor the day of his
assassination. We still need to clarify his relevance
for us today. At ChickenBones: A
Journal, we would love to publish your extended
thoughts on this subject. Presently, we only have a
small piece of your:
africaoramericablackstudies.htm
We would love for you to become a regular contributor to
our work. We have a considerable readership that might
be sent to your
thinktank
website.
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Malcolm
X House, roxbury (boston): Malcolm X
House, 72 Dale street, Roxbury. This was the
house of Malcolm X's half (senior) sister
Ell...a Collins. Ella was a surrogate mother
to Malcolm. Malcolm came here to live in the
early 1940s at the age of 11 (I will double
check that). By 1946 he had been arrested
and served time in a local prison before
transforming his life with the help of the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad. If you take the
#1 bus to the last stop, Dudley Square, you
can walk to the Malcolm X house in about 10
minutes. The property is now an official
landmark and the house is currently owned by
Malcolm X's nephew, Brother Rodnell Collins.
I will try to get a pic of him up. Mr.
Colliins has written a memoir called
"Seventh Child." These pics were taken in
Roxbury, Massachusetts and the surrounding
area. I walked from the Nation of Islam
Mosque #11 to the Malcolm X house (about 20
min).
Kwame Zulu Shabazz |
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Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary:
www.youtube.com
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Malcolm X Files / "Recently when I was blessed to
make a religious pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca
where I met many people from all over the world, plus
spent many weeks in Africa ...
Malcolm X:
The House Negro and the Field
Negro:
www.youtube.com /
Malcolm X Files / "Back during slavery, when
Black people like me talked to the slaves, they didn't
kill 'em, they sent some old house Negro along behind
him to undo what he said. You have to read the history
of slavery to understand this. ...
Malcolm X:
Oxford Union Debate:
www.youtube.com
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Malcolm X Files / "I read once, passingly, about a
man named Shakespeare. I only read about him passingly,
but I remember one thing he wrote that kind of moved me.
He put it in the mouth of Hamlet, I think, it was, who
said, "To be or not to be." He was in doubt about
something. .....
April Mojica: Oh
GOSH, my eyes are burning with tears! I weep as I write
this. How blessed we were that he existed and that we,
his descendants born after his assassination, can watch
his poise, his courage and hear his brilliant gifts that
he brought to bear in the fight for justice for black
people. He gave his life!!!!!! (weeping) Thank you APRIL
for bringing his life to us today!
Nzelu Enzo Banda: Even in my country, Zambia,
Central Africa,we have been influenced through his
message, courage, interviews and audacity, we will
always remember him, what a hero for us all, he woke
people up.
Malcolm X:
We
Condemn People For Their Deeds Not Their Skin:
www.youtube.com
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Malcolm X Files / Malcolm X is asked point blank
about supposedly judging people about the colour of
their skins and gives an excellent answer...watch as he
gets cut off at the end!
http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/
Malcolm X Explains Black
Nationalism:
www.youtube.com /
Speaking to an audience at the Audobon Ballroom in
Washington Heights on March 29, 1964, Malcolm X
explains: "If you're interested in freedom, you need
some judo, you ...
April R. Silver: I am so grateful to God for the
life of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, popularly known as
Malcolm X. I love you openly and dearly. Born May 19,
1925 (Nebraska) – Assassinated Feb. 21, 1965 (Harlem)
Charles Reese: This excerpt from
Ossie Davis' Eulogy for Malcolm X on February 27,
1965 says it best for me......."Malcolm was our manhood,
our living, black manhood! This was his meaning to his
people. Consigning these mortal remains to earth, the
common mother of all, secure in the knowledge that what
we place in the ground is no more now a man but a seed
which... See More, after the winter of our discontent,
will come forth again to meet us. And we will know him
then for what he was and is. A prince. Our own black
shining prince who didn't hesitate to die because he
loved us so."
Malcolm X's Death (Spike Lee's Most Powerful Scene):
www.youtube.com
/ Last Scene in Spike Lee's Malcolm X. Shows Malcolm (Denzel
Washington) being assassinated in New York and the
funeral eulogy performed by friend and revolutionary
Ossie Davis. This clip also contains many pictures of
the actual Malcolm and a speech from Nelson Mandela.
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Malcolm
X artifacts unearthed—Police docs and more found
among belongs of 'Shorty' Jarvis—1 February
2012—Documents outlining the crime that landed
Malcolm X in prison in the 1940s are among some
1,000 recently unearthed items purchased jointly
by the civil rights leader's foundation and an
independent collector of African-American
artifacts. The documents and other artifacts
belonged to late musician Malcolm "Shorty"
Jarvis, who served in prison with Malcolm X and
was one of his closest friends. Jarvis' 1976
pardon paper also is part of the collection,
which was recently discovered by accident. The
items had been in a Connecticut storage unit
that had gone into default, and were initially
auctioned off to a buyer who had no idea what he
was bidding on. The Omaha, Nebraska-based
Malcolm X Memorial Foundation, which oversees
the Malcolm X Center located at his birthplace,
will house and display the just-arrived
archives. It split the cost with Black History
101 Mobile Museum, based in Detroit—the
birthplace of the Nation of Islam.—Mobile Museum
founder and curator Khalid el-Hakim declined to
identify the original buyer or the price the two
organizations paid for the trove. Still, even
after splitting the cost, he said it's the
largest acquisition to date for his mobile
museum, which includes Jim Crow-era artifacts, a
Ku Klux Klan hood and signed documents by
Malcolm X and Rosa Parks. . . . The collection
also reveals an enduring connection between the
two Malcolms after their incarceration, Malcolm
X's conversion to Islam and his rise to
prominence. There's a 72-page scrapbook of
Malcolm X's life that was maintained by Jarvis
until after his friend's 1965 assassination. One
of the civil rights era's most controversial and
compelling figures, Malcolm X rose to fame as
the chief spokesman of the Nation of Islam, a
movement started in Detroit more than 80 years
ago. He proclaimed the black Muslim
organization's message at the time: racial
separatism as a road to self-actualization and
urged blacks to claim civil rights "by any means
necessary" and referred to whites as "devils."—TheGrio
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Snoop Dogg Speaks @ Nation of Islam's SD2009
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Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
By
Manning Marable
Years
in the making-the definitive biography of
the legendary black activist.
Of the great figure in twentieth-century
American history perhaps none is more
complex and controversial than Malcolm X.
Constantly rewriting his own story, he
became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and
an icon, all before being felled by
assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine.
Through his tireless work and countless
speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands
of black Americans to create better lives
and stronger communities while establishing
the template for the self-actualized,
independent African American man. In death
he became a broad symbol of both resistance
and reconciliation for millions around the
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Manning Marable's
new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement.
Filled with new information and shocking revelations
that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a
sweeping story of race and class in America, from the
rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the
struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties
and sixties.
Reaching into
Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his
parents' activism through his own engagement with the
Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the
world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the
never-before-told true story of his assassination.
Malcolm X will stand as the definitive work on one of
the most singular forces for social change, capturing
with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in
the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.
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Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky
surveys the dangers and prospects of our
early twenty-first century. Exploring
challenges such as the growing gap
between North and South, American
exceptionalism (including under
President Barack Obama), the fiascos of
Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli
assault on Gaza, and the recent
financial bailouts, he also sees hope
for the future and a way to move
forward—in the democratic wave in Latin
America and in the global solidarity
movements that suggest "real progress
toward freedom and justice." Hopes and
Prospects is essential reading for
anyone who is concerned about the
primary challenges still facing the
human race. "This is a classic Chomsky
work: a bonfire of myths and lies,
sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky
is an enduring inspiration all over the
world—to millions, I suspect—for the
simple reason that he is a truth-teller
on an epic scale. I salute him." —John
Pilger
In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of
American empire and class domination, at
home and abroad, Chomsky continues a
longstanding and crucial work of
elucidation and activism . . .the
writing remains unswervingly rational
and principled throughout, and lends
bracing impetus to the real alternatives
before us.—Publisher's
Weekly
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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