Showing posts with label Malcolm X. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malcolm X. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

7 Things You Never Knew About The Life And Death Of Malcolm X

Malcolm X - The House Negro and the Field NegroFifty-two years ago today, Malcolm X was killed while deliveringa speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.The shooting of the then 39-year-old took the life of a complicated and legendary figure who had been going through a transition period in life.After years of helping promote the ideals of the National of Islam, Malcolm had a falling out with the group. Shortly after that...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

Hundreds Make Pilgrimage to Ferncliff Cemetery in Honor of Malcolm X"s Birthday

WITNESSED: THE ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X (2015) By the time Imamu Khari was 8 years old, he had read "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." By age 10, he had watched Spike Lee"s cinematic adaptation, "Malcolm X," starring Denzel Washington. Learning about the slain activist"s teachings was a critical part of Khari"s childhood,...
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Yuri Kochiyama, today"s Google Doodle, fought for civil rights and praised Osama bin Laden

Man beats up daughter"s cheating boyfriend/ Twitter Shows Malcolm X LOVE! Thursday, May 19, this year would"ve been the 95th birthday of Yuri Kochiyama, a prominent Japanese-American activist who passed away at 93 two years ago. Google is marking the occasion with one of its trademark doodles.Some of Kochiyama"s work was deeply, clearly admirable. As an associate of Malcolm X, she was an important nonblack ally to the more...
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Beyonc touches down at TCF Bank Stadium following her gutsiest play yet

Malcolm X: Speeches and Interviews (1960-65) ...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Daughter of Malcolm X preaches compassion, solutions

WITNESSED: THE ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X (2015)Ilyasah al Shabazz, a daughter of human rights activist Malcolm X, speaks at the First Unitarian Universalist Society Church in Burlington on Sunday.(Photo: ELIZABETH MURRAY/FREE PRESS)Buy PhotoA daughter of human rights activist Malcolm X stood at a podium, looking out at a sea of faces Sunday at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington during an annual Martin...
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