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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
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Malcolm
X &
the African- American Cultural Revolution
A. Peter Bailey
Journalist,
Author, Activist
Sunday
May 18, 2003, 3 pm
The Great
Blacks in Wax Museum
In commemoration of the anniversary of the birth
of Malcolm X, The Nationalist Center for African Communitarian
Culture will present "Malcolm X and the African-American
Cultural Revolution." on Sunday, May 18, 2003, 3pm to
6pm at The Great Blacks in Wax Museum, 1601 North Avenue,
Baltimore, Maryland. Tickets are $15.00 (includes free museum
tour). The featured speaker will be the distinguished
journalist, author and activist A. Peter Bailey.
Peter Bailey, former editor of Ebony magazine,
was an original member of The Organization of
Afro-American Unity (OAAU), founded in 1964 by Malcolm X .
Bailey was editor of the OAAU news organ Blacklash. He is
also is co-author of
Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin
Ailey; co-author with Rodnell P. Collins (nephew of Malcolm
X) of
Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X. He
assisted John Henrik Clarke with the editing of
Malcolm X:
The Man and His Times. As Associate Director of The Black
Theatre Alliance (BTA), Bailey edited the BTA Newsletter.
He is a native of Columbus, Georgia and a graduate of Howard
University.
The National Center for African Communitarian Culture was
established in may 1999 and is committed to the continuity of
the Cultural Revolution, initially called by Malcolm X and the
OAAU. the present thrust of NCACC is 1) developing forums and
seminars focused on nationalist, pan-Africanist, and Socialist
thought and practice; and 2) providing material support to
organizations and institutions whose ideology and program are
complementary with the NCACC, i.e., The Black Farmers &
Agriculturalist Association (BFAA); TransAfrica Forum; the
National black Theatre Festival; et al.
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John
Coltrane, "Alabama" /
Kalamu ya Salaam, "Alabama"
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A Love Supreme
A Blues for the Birmingham Four
/ Eulogy for the Young Victims
/ Six Dead After Church
Bombing
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Not Gone
With the Wind Voices of Slavery—Henry Louis
Gates, Jr.—9 February 2003—Unchained Memories,
an HBO documentary that makes its debut tomorrow
night, provides a powerful answer to that question.
It gives us, through the faces and voices of
African-American actors, an introduction to a vast
undertaking that took place in the 1930's: the
collection and preservation of the testimonies of
thousands of aged former slaves in an archive known
as the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal
Writers' Project. This archive unlocked the brutal
secrets of slavery by using the voices of average
slaves as the key, exposing the everyday life of the
slave community. Rosa Starke, a slave from South
Carolina, for example, told of how class divisions
among the slaves were quite pronounced:
''Dere was just
two classes to de white folks, buckra slave owners
and poor white folks dat didn't own no slaves. Dere
was more classes 'mongst de slaves. De fust class
was de house servants. Dese was de butler, de maids,
de nurses, chambermaids, and de cooks. De nex' class
was de carriage drivers and de gardeners, de
carpenters, de barber and de stable men. Then come
de nex' class, de wheelwright, wagoners, blacksmiths
and slave foremen. De nex' class I members was de
cow men and de niggers dat have care of de dogs. All
dese have good houses and never have to work hard or
git a beatin'. Then come de cradlers of de wheat, de
threshers and de millers of de corn and de wheat,
and de feeders of de cotton gin. De lowest class was
de common field niggers.''—NYTimes
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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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Nina Simone—Go
to Hell
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Go to Hell
Lyrics by Nina Simone
If your mind lies
in the Devil's workshop
Evil-doin's your thrill
And trouble and mischief is all you live
for
You know damn well
That you'll go to hell (yeah)
You'll go to hell
Now you're living high and mighty
Rich off the fat of the land
Just don't dispose of your natural soul
'cos if you do you know damn well
That you'll go to hell (yes, you will)
You'll go to hell
Hell
Where your natural soul burns
Hell
Where you pay for your sins
Hell
Keep your children from doing wrong (if
you can)
'cos you know damn well
That they'll go to hell
They'll go to hell
Hell
Man, woman were created
Hell
To live for eternity
Hell
With an apple they ate from the tree of
hate
So you know damn well
Oh... they went to hell (yes, they did)
They went to hell
Some say that hell is below us
But I say it's right by my side
'cos you see evil in the morning
Evil in the evening, all the time
You know damn well
That we all must be in hell
We got to be in hell
We all must be in hell
We must be in hell. |
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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
world. |
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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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
you happy." |
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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