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Not to mention Malcolm X and John Lennon, and the attempts on George Wallace, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and others I may, mercifully, have forgotten. I, too, wince when someone talks about the possibility of something happening to Obama. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Campaign '08: Taking A Peek Behind Bill Ayers' Office Door Oct 17, 2008
The Tribune noted that Ayers' office door is decorated with pictures of leftist hero and convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, murderous Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, along with Malcolm X and what National Review Online writer Jim Geraghty describes as a "Where's Waldo of lefty radicalism.". The irony is that while Barack Obama may very well be elected president, he probably couldn't get any other job in his own administration because of his past associations. (Investors Business Daily)
LETTERS: NCT, Oct. 15, 2008 Oct 16, 2008
"Made a believer out of me!I was about to vote for McCain because I figured 100 more years of the ruinously expensive, counterproductive war in Iraq was a terrific idea, but now that I've seen the light I'll be voting for Obama.Thanks. Short Bus Raoul wrote on Oct 15, 2008 9:32 AM:Apollo's 8:57 AM post is all lies!In fact, a recent study by the Raoul Sinverguenza Institute found that sdraoul's facts are 100% accurate 100% of the time.That's the truth.Because I said it is. Ron wrote on Oct 15,... (North County Times)
Castro: Racism in US keeps many away from Obama... Oct 12, 2008
The ailing, 82-year-old former Cuban president says it is "a miracle that the Democratic candidate hasn't suffered the same luck as (assassinated leaders) Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and others who harbored dreams of equality and justice.". Castro's written comments were published by state media Saturday. (The Drudge Report)
The Cycle Continues Oct 11, 2008
Stray references to Malcolm X or black power punctuate the long stories. This is the first play in which Aunt Ester crops up, as an offstage all-knowing "conjure woman," and the first in which urban renewal rears its ugly head. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New exhibit puts focus on Gordon Parks Oct 11, 2008
In a narrative accompanying a 1963 photo essay about Malcolm X and the Black Muslim movement, Parks recalled how he sometimes drove through Harlem on his way home to the comfort of Westchester, N.Y., and how in his early days he missed the soft laugher of Harlem and the security of black friends about me. . (MSNBC -- News)
Barack Obama, The Invisible Man Oct 10, 2008
Obama cites Invisible Man as a major influence on his personal evolution along with The Autobiography of Malcolm X, two classic first-person narratives in the African American literary canon that can properly be thought of as novels with strong autobiographical components. (Malcolm X is ostensibly based on a series of taped interviews with the ex-Black Muslim leader and was written after Malcolm's death by Alex Haley, who also wrote Roots ... Yet, while Obama's rejection of his "white blood" may... (CBS News)
T-shirt causes uproar Oct 10, 2008
Cant Think of a Better Reason wrote on Oct 3, 2008 3:11 PM:" The purpose of going to school is to get an education. I can't think of a better story that supports the concept of school uniforms. If it is not a political statement, it is a confederate flag or a Malcolm X T-shirt, or saggin pants, or some vulgar statement, or some other noneducational topic that does nothing but upset the educational process and takes up the time of teachers and school administrators. With school uniforms there is... (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)
NNPA Honors Black Press Columnists Oct 8, 2008
" NNPA co-chairs, Leavell and John B. Smith Sr. presented awards and posed for pictures with the honorees. Smith said columnists serve an important role in the Black Press by helping to cover all aspects of the community. ''I think this may be the Black Press' finest hour, because we may soon have the first Black president,'' Reynolds said. ''Even if we don't we have a movement of change, we need to go about a change of the current system. I think we can play a good role. The leadership, whether... (Atlanta Daily World, GA)
Nigeria: Yar'Adua, Jonathan Turn Down Honours Oct 3, 2008
Malcolm X, who taught black people to stand up to their dignity, Rosa Parks who single-handedly confronted discrimination and late Martin Luther King Jnr also featured on the list. Relevant Links. (allAfrica.com)
Spike Lee discusses 'Miracle at St. Anna Sep 25, 2008
Lee cites an emotional exchange from his film to explain his own state of anticipation: "There's a scene between two of the leads, Derek Luke, who plays Stamps, and Michael Ealy, who plays Bishop. It's an argument that's been going on for years, from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois on through Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Bishop asks, 'Why are we here? This is not our war.' And Stamps says, 'I am doing this for the future. I am doing this for my children.' Related STORY: STORY: More... (Los Angeles Times)
SAVING PRIVATE CONFLICTS Sep 25, 2008
Don t be fooled by the kerfluffle Lee instigated with Clint Eastwood at last spring s Cannes Film Festival over the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II. That was a smokescreen for Lee s ongoing Spielberg rivalry (as in his Malcolm X scene disparaging E.T.), and it distracts from the oppositional petulance that actually fuels the bitter, sanctimonious and drawn-out Miracle at St. Anna. The story of an all-black... (New York Press)
The miracle of Spike Lee Sep 25, 2008
I gave up in 1992, during the overhyped and merely OK "Malcolm X," when Denzel Washington's voice-over describes the young Malcolm X's outrage at the way his teachers attempted to keep him in his place. He says something to the effect that he's been treated like a horse. (Salon)
Spike Lee manages to pull off a 'Miracle' with WWII film Sep 25, 2008
The incendiary filmmaker, 51, known for such landmark pictures as 1989's Do the Right Thing and 1992's Malcolm X, says he never thought he would see someone like Barack Obama on the ballot for the nation's top office. "I'm not saying this will eradicate racism," says Lee, who videotaped the Democratic convention from a ringside seat. (USA Today)
Market to the Melting Pot Sep 24, 2008
Malcolm X Day: The third Sunday in May marks the celebration of Malcolm X Day. Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, became one of the most outspoken and popular leaders of the Black Nationalist movement in the 1960s. (Entrepreneur)
9/27: Santana Sep 20, 2008
But I also grew up listening to Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X. So who I am is not just a musician. Q: You're multi-dimensional. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Pullman Porters Laid Track for a Better Life Sep 19, 2008
Some of history's heavyweights, including Thurgood Marshall and Malcolm X, worked as Pullman porters. "It was considered what they call a clean job. They didn't get dirty," Hughes said. (ABC News)
Mind-forged manacles still bind the most Sep 18, 2008
Malcolm X when he was still petty thief Malcolm Little, long before he became a nationally known leader and made the life-changing pilgrimage to Mecca that convinced him we all pray to one God, who is a God love and tolerance. Nicola Sacco and Bartolommeo Vanzetti when they were accused of a murder and robbery that many still say they never committed. (Woburn Advocate, MA)
EDWARD WASSERMAN: When will the media show real spine? Sep 18, 2008
Soon enough, we'll see the ads portraying Obama as a cross between Malcolm X and Bugsy Siegel. When that happens, some in the media will be ready with pails and shovels to sort through the claims. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Will unbeaten Dogs fall again? Sep 17, 2008 Darrell Randall; ex-missionary was apartheid foe Sep 15, 2008 Vital Statistics Sep 15, 2008 Hall of Fame Profile - David Krummenacker Sep 15, 2008 Metallica revives old sound Sep 14, 2008 Rosset, Kingston to receive honorary book awards Sep 12, 2008 Commentary -- Teens can lead Sep 12, 2008 W.D. Mohammed, at 74; ex-leader of the Nation of Islam Sep 10, 2008 Greenwald is off base Sep 9, 2008 Critic's corner Sep 8, 2008 LETTERS: NCT, Sept. 6, 2008 Sep 7, 2008 Toronto festival begins the long road to Oscars Sep 6, 2008 PAPER: Five Reasons Why She Should Appear... Sep 6, 2008 Election '08: Barack Obama — Magna Cum Saudi? Sep 6, 2008 September's shaping up to be entertaining Sep 5, 2008 Parade, stars, weirdness at DragonCon Aug 29, 2008 Fear of Defaults After a Flurry of Apartment House Sales Aug 27, 2008 The Five Faces Of Barack Obama Aug 22, 2008 Child of a lost bohemia Aug 20, 2008 Obama-themed merchandise sales strike it hot Aug 18, 2008 ABTS conference kicks off; four schools represented Aug 17, 2008 Opinion: From Clay to Ali, he was special Aug 14, 2008 Uphold democracy, not mob rule Aug 14, 2008 It’s dangerous to seek change Aug 13, 2008 Teaching English to the teachers Aug 13, 2008 Is Obama the end of black politics? Aug 7, 2008 Gwyneth Paltrow films ad for Barack Obama Aug 5, 2008 Critics' Picks Aug 2, 2008 Obama,McCain as comic characters soon Jul 31, 2008 NYT: Obama tested ideas in classroom Jul 30, 2008 Somebody has stolen our president! Jul 20, 2008 Commentswere thePitts (1) Jul 19, 2008 Statement time for USA Jul 19, 2008 Obama words, Obama words... Jul 18, 2008 Poor wait with anticipation for province's poverty plan Jul 18, 2008 Culture elite's protection of the Obamas Jul 18, 2008 The Candidate As Cult Leader Jul 16, 2008 Filmmaker Rips Jackson Over Obama Criticism Jul 13, 2008 Spike Lee to film Broadway show Jul 13, 2008 Civil Lawsuit Filed: Bartian involved in racially charged fight sues alleged assailants, parents (67) Jul 13, 2008 Spike Lee set to film rock musical Jul 13, 2008 Africa: Barack Obama As the Post Coldwar Dividend Jul 8, 2008 LETTERS: NCT, July 3, 2008 Jul 4, 2008 More of this story Jul 4, 2008 KEVIN ALEXANDER GRAY: Obama mustn't use people of color as props Jun 26, 2008 Judge Charged With Misconduct After YouTube Video Shows Him Soliciting Campaign Funds Jun 20, 2008 Lake Land basketball roster revamped Jun 17, 2008 ‘Defending Democracy’ displays commitment to political participation Jun 17, 2008 Is Obama a protectionist? Jun 17, 2008 Juneteenth Celebrates Jazz, Asks For Status Jun 17, 2008 Graduation day Jun 14, 2008 Clint vs. Spike: WWII racial grudge match! Jun 11, 2008 IN MY LIBRARY: MARC ECKO Jun 8, 2008 Spike Lee fires back at Clint Eastwood Jun 8, 2008 100 Black Men program pairs education and life lessons Jun 7, 2008 Eastwood tells Lee to 'Shut his face' Jun 6, 2008 Why assassination talk is taboo Jun 4, 2008 Foes of gay marriage, have you no shame? Jun 4, 2008 Obama's Radical-Left Ties Broad And Deep Jun 3, 2008 Analysis The era of the Clintons soon will come to an end May 31, 2008 Congressman Danny K. Davis and Attorney Leving Say Fathers Are the Key to Ending Youth Violence May 31, 2008 2 men shot, 1 dies May 26, 2008 Her Aides Say Obama Campaign Has Exploited Statement... May 26, 2008 Meet the defamer May 26, 2008 Free speech ... or intimidation? May 24, 2008
Jeff thinks he s funny and Terence thinks he s Malcolm X.. Here s the real truth, from someone who knows something about football. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
YouTube Bans Terrorist Training Videos Sep 16, 2008
If not MLK, then what about Malcolm X. The NRA. (Slashdot)
As a missionary and pacifist, Mr. Randall also traveled to North Africa, where he spent hours in discussions with Malcolm X and Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy. According to his brother, in the early 1960s, Mr. Randall consulted for President John F. Kennedy, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy before each traveled to Africa. (Boston Globe)
Malcolm X Monte Jones and Natoya Shantae Fields. Joshua Kananimauloa Kaakua and Laura Hokunani Edmunds. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
He's wearing not a singlet, but a black Malcolm X T-shirt. "I never noticed that until now," smiled Drosky, who noticed everything else. (Ramblinwreck.com)
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A leading advocate of avant-garde and political writings, he also released work by Malcolm X, Che Guevara and Jean-Paul Sartre among others. Kingston, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in Stockton, Calif. (USA Today -- Life)
Men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President John F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X fought for equal rights; they even died for it. But did they actually achieve their goal. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
He continued to appeal to black pride, renaming the Nation of Islam's former Harlem temple after Malcolm X, and told mosque members that "your heart is dead if you waste five gallons of gas to drive to a white man's store rather than shop within your own community." ... He became close to one of his father's former acolytes, Malcolm X, who had fallen into disfavor, and that friendship caused his father to banish him for the first of three times. (Boston Globe)
The "fundraiser" asked Percy Sutton, a former lawyer for Malcolm X and a former "business partner" of al-Mansour, to write a letter in support of Obama's application to Harvard Law School. The business concerning BHO's "student loans" are quickly coming apart. (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)
The best sight gags are the ones that goof on other movies ("Malcolm X," "The Godfather"). On the whole, the Costner version was funnier - and more highly energized. (Boston Globe)
He then joined a radical church, who's liberation theology was first preached by James Cone {who's book is for sale on the church's website}, Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael, taught by Rev. Wright, and accepted by Obama in his 20 year memebership in this church. And he stayed because in his 1st book book he writes: "...white folks greed runs a world in need..."Quoting the wrong Rev. Wright. (North County Times)
The latter finds the controversial director at his most epically inclined since 1992's "Malcolm X," and it struggles, sometimes clumsily, at other times with poetic force, to explode the war-movie cliches of white Hollywood. It's less Spike Lee's answer to Clint Eastwood (the two sparred nastily last spring over the genre's racial make-up) than his considered response to Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," and it only stumbles badly when dealing with a female partisan played by Valentina... (Boston Globe)
" Come on Oprah, do you honestly believe that we're that gullible? A strong WOMAN (last time I checked you were a true champion for women) is suddenly and historically in the national spotlight, grabbing headlines worldwide... and the concept had never been discussed until Drudge fabricated a story? You're faaarrrr too shrewd a businesswomen. Seriously Oprah, don't for a second think we're buying it. Why not just come out and say that you're supporting Obama and don't want to do anything to hurt... (The Drudge Report)
According to Timmerman, "At the time Percy Sutton, a former lawyer for Malcolm X and a former business partner of al-Mansour, says he (al-Mansour) was raising money for Obama's graduate school education (and) al-Mansour was representing top members of the Saudi Royal family seeking to do business and exert influence in the United States.". One of those Saudi royals was Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah. (Investors Business Daily)
The picture is not pretty at Malcolm X High School in the Bronx as Ms. Sun, an energized Donnetta Lavinia Grays, approaches her first class of students, students who are unmotivated, sassy, disrespectful and lost in the system that devalues them. Enthusiastically, Sun offers these young rejects of society the chance to prove themselves and develop a modicum of self-esteem in the process, by putting on a play about convicts in Australia, "Our Country's Good." Lizan Mitchell, Portia and Anthony... (Middletown Press, CT)
In 1985, he had the lead role in the Anthony Davis opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.. ROBERT ENGLUND. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Savoy Park, which is bounded by 139th and 142nd Streets and Fifth Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard, was refinanced a few months before the credit markets stalled last summer. Credit Suisse pooled the main or senior $210 million loan with other mortgages and sold it to Wall Street investors as a commercial mortgage-backed security. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Those pieces of Obama are also open to interpretation, because so few of them are stamped from any familiar presidential mold: the polygamous father, the globe-traveling single mother, the web of roots spreading from Kansas to Kenya, friends and relatives from African slums to Washington and Wall Street, and intellectual influences ranging from Alexander Hamilton to Malcolm X. Four of the faces of Obama pose various threats to his hopes for victory. The fifth is the one his campaign intends to... (Time.com)
At first, there seems almost no similarity between Ken Jacobs' abstract and often confrontational films -- he once found an unedited reel of news footage surrounding the 1964 assassination of Malcolm X and released it untouched as a work entitled "Perfect Film" -- and his son's winsome, wistful and often funny movies, which clearly come from the tradition of Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurism. ki. (Salon)
Another has him flanked by Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X. A third renders his "Change We Can Believe In" motto in a gothic script favored by hip-hop typographers. "There's always going to be a market until the election," observed a mix tape producer who goes by the name DJ Difference and had stopped to look at Onley's selection of DVDs. (Boston Globe)
Novak tied in various historical references throughout, including the Berkeley riots in 1963, Plato, Malcolm X, and the Penn State Undergraduate Student Government's (USG) loss of power in 1969 before closing the speech with a simple goal for the representatives: "Make it a real university again.". The afternoon session was divided into three breakout sessions, which saw discussion of campus marketing, structure, legislation, budgets/activity fee and two cooperative initiatives, Service Nation... (Daily Collegian, PA)
This hour-long film, produced by Alan Tomlinson and Gaspar Gonzalez, does a fascinating job of traveling back in time to tell the stories of Alis Miami years, when he lived in the black section of town called Overtown, trained at the famous 5th Street Gym on Miami Beach, and became something of a celebrity pied piper as everyone from the Beatles to Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Jr. to Malcolm X entered this dank old place for an audience with the kid who was on his way to becoming the worlds... (MSNBC -- Sports)
We need leaders who can forge meaningful national unity based on democratic principles and responsible dialogue (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Ever since time itself, people have been killed while promoting change for the better, for example; Jesus, John Lennon, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Malcolm X, etc. Why are we so desperate for change, and whenever somebody does come around and try to make it happen they end up extinct. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
It's worth noting that Malcolm X, with an eighth-grade education, learned the English language far more thoroughly -inside a prison cell, without teachers - than most American English-speaking students will ever learn in kindergarten through college. That should tell American educators something, but it doesn't, because they are not as bright as they pretend to be. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
It is hard for any outsider to fully understand the thinking that led many older black leaders to spurn the candidacy of a man who is now routinely pictured, along with '60s-era revolutionaries like Angela Davis and Malcolm X, on the T-shirts sold at the street-corner kiosks of black America. ("You'd be real embarrassed if he won and you wasn't down with it," the comedian Chris Rock joked to a Harlem audience while introducing Obama last November. (International Herald Tribune)
Please don't include Malcolm X with those other bozos ... The radical is going to lose big because of associations with other radicals like Bill Ayres, Saul Linsky, Frank Marshall Frank Marshall Davis who was a communist, Jeremiah Wright, Resko, Meeks, Flager, Screwy Louie Farakan, Malcolm X. These people hate America and are socialist, communists, and terrorists. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Gianvito devotes a little meditative chunk of time to each of them, capturing not just the final resting places of Eugene V. Debs and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Malcolm X and victims of the Homestead strike and King Philip's War, along with others almost entirely forgotten by history, but also the grass, trees, light and life that carry on around them. The effect is hypnotic, transcendent and highly mysterious. (Salon)
He also has written comic-book biographies of Ronald Reagan and Malcolm X. Obamas biography is being written by novelist Jeff Mariotte. J Scott Campbell did both covers; each features its candidate in the classic superhero pose of squared shoulders and fists on hips with an American flag in the background. (India Times)
Mr. Obama improvised his own textbook, including classic cases like Brown v. Board of Education, and essays by Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Dubois, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, as well as conservative thinkers like Robert H. Bork. Mr. Obama was especially eager for his charges to understand the horrors of the past, students say. (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
Like Malcolm X one said: The chickens have come home to roost. What you sre aeeing is a lame jerk of a president trying to salvage any shred of credability he has left. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
But if Helms and other right-thinking individuals had been given the leeway to allow the American people to decide, we might instead be celebrating a day in honor of Frederick Douglas or Malcolm X or Rosa Parks or Harriet Tubman. And in the end, Pitts shows exactly why those like himself, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton -- as well as those who follow their poor leadership -- continue to perpetuate racism in this country. (Elizabethtown Bladen Journal, NC)
"He was a young, second-level preacher. Nobody saw Malcolm X coming out of prison. Nobody saw Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Harry Edwards coming out of San Jose State. I'm convinced that, irrespective of what we think we see from a social and political standpoint relative to this generation of athletes, there's somebody out there whom we simply don't see coming. I don't think we are wise enough or visionary enough to say that this generation is lost or that this generation can't get it done.... (ESPN -- Golf News)
Lets celebrate the life of our leaders of the past, the honorable Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and W.E.B Dubois, Martin Luther King Jr. etc. These are obvious contradiction; an obvious classic example of speaking without the benefit of knowledge. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
To quote Malcolm X, "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." Here in Ottawa, we've organized a Panhandlers' Union under the Industrial Workers of the World. One of our members got savagely beaten by three members of Rideau Centre security for the crime of looking poor; we sued them for $70 000 on his behalf. (Toronto Star)
Put glasses on him, and Barack could play Malcolm X in the movies. And assume the point of the cartoon had been to satirize the Obamas. (San Francisco Chronicle)
One of the key elements in many religious cults involves a name change like transitioning from Richard Alpert to Baba Ram Dass, or from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X. To Obamas true-believers, adding an Islamic middle name is a small price to pay for connecting with a candidate who qualifies as a lightworker and an enlightened being, according to San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford. Many spiritually advanced people I know, he writes, identify Obama as a... (Townhall.com)
The presidency of the first African-American will ripple throughout arts, sports and more, said Lee, whose films include "Malcolm X" and "Do the Right Thing.". "Everything's going to be affected by this seismic change in the universe," he said. (Click2Houston, TX)
Lee, known for movies such as Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing, will film the production on 19 July, along with two more performances without audiences. The musical will then end its run in New York on the following day. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Malcolm X said wrote on Jul 7, 2008 8:04 PM:" Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. ". Why spread the hate wrote on Jul 7, 2008 5:01 PM:" I am concerned that the E-E would publish a picture of the alleged victim, lying in bed with a rebel flag clearly in display. Why would you publish such a picture if you are not intentionally contributing to the racial tension that certainly contributed to this act???... (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Lee, director of such films as "Do the Right Thing," "Malcolm X" and "She's Gotta Have It," said there would be surprises in the film but declined to amplify. "Then it wouldn't be a surprise," he said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The transplantation of Obama's father to Hawaii was a show of diplomatic love by a white American ruling class that was also meant to weaken an emerging thrust by black American politicians (both by reformers like Martin Luther King and "communists" or radicals like W.E.B. Dubois and Malcolm X), who saw the emerging African nationalism of the 1960s, against white domination, as a new weapon to be used to break the yoke of racism on the necks of black people in America itself. At the founding of... (allAfrica.com)
" In fact, Obama practiced in what we in California call Small Claims Court.Notice that the hospital where she works doubled her pay when he was elected to the U.S. senate. In California that would be illegal but not in Chicago. To Second Amendment wrote on Jul 3, 2008 5:01 PM:Youre entitled to your opinion, but the opinion that matters has come down from the Supreme Court. You should read the opinion; the right to keep and bear arms is not dependent on militia participation. Even the select... (North County Times)
Gordon Parks' 1963 photograph of Malcolm X is one of 70 images on view at the California African American Museum s Let Your Motto Be Resistance exhibit. Malcolm X, who paved the way for the Black Power movement, is seen here selling a special issue of Muhammad Speaks, the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam, a group he would later reject. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
His forthcoming books are "Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics" and "The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama." Gray wrote this for Progressive Media Project, a source of commentary on domestic and international issues. It is affiliated with The Progressive Magazine. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Singletary is also arguing in his answer to the Judicial Conduct Board's complaint filed Thursday with the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline that the Philadelphia First State Road Rattlers gathered April 22, 2007, at Malcolm X Park at 52nd and Pine streets in Philadelphia were his family members and close friends who knew that Singletary would not hear his cases. "I regret using the words 'You're all going to need my hook-up right?' I was surprised to see that I had actually used those... (Law.com)
The Lakers face Parkland on Nov. 12, the Millikin JV on Nov. 19 and Malcolm X on Nov. 22 at the Fieldhouse. Lewis & Clark, Danville Area and Illinois Central are no longer on the schedule, but there is a difficult road trip to Moberly, Mo. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
El Shabazz High School (Malcolm X s Shabazz) appears mid-court near a panther head mascot titled Ferocious Kats. OJ&A will screen videos in their basketball gym during the run of the exhibition, this Free Community Film Program parodying the Panther s many Free programs. (Woodlands Villager, TX)
"If the Saudis do produce 10 million barrels a day next month," wrote Hamilton, "I would expect it to have a significant impact on near-term oil prices. But how near-term is near-term? On Monday morning, the Financial Times According to the FT, the market consensus is that Saudi Arabia will only boost production to 9.7 million barrels a day (although even that total would rank as the highest production since 1981). And in New York, the price of West Texas Intermediate oil futures once again... (Salon)
Sunday's festival was in honor of late jazz saxophonist Preston Love and civil rights leader Malcolm X -- both Omaha natives. Copyright 2008 by. (7 KETV Omaha)
After all, the name of my son's school is Malcolm X Elementary ... It's been a long, often bitter, sometimes mired-in-manufactured-controversy campaign, and there's certainly no guarantee that the ultimate outcome will be applauded at Malcolm X Elementary or Longfellow Middle School. (Salon)
And as long as we're playing fantasy-film football, I'd be delighted to give Lee his opportunity to go back in history and make "Bird" -- as long as Eastwood gets to make "Malcolm X." I mean, come on. That's a great idea, and I won't let anybody deny it. (Salon)
I based one of my paintings off of an image on page 258; a mash-up of Bob Dylan, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro and President Kennedy. It hangs over my desk. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Lee was upset when the Dirty Harry star used an interview in a British newspaper to attack the Malcolm X director over remarks he made about the lack of black actors in Eastwood's 2006 war films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. The veteran suggested Lee should "shut his face," adding the younger director should get his facts right before lecturing him about African-American soldiers. (FOX23 News, NY)
He also told the boys about historic black Americans Frederick Douglass, who learned to read while enslaved, and Malcolm X, a civil rights leader. He also promised the boys if they would read his book which he provided them autographed copies of and then write him a letter, he would send them a 50 check. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Eastwood has rejected the Malcolm X director's complaint that he had failed to include a single black soldier in his 2006 films Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, about the 1945 battle for the Japanese island. Rationalizing his choice, the actor-turned-director explains the African-American troops who were at battle didn't take part in raising the flag. (FOX23.com, OK)
There are other signs pointing to the contagious nature of assassination, among them the succession from the Evers shooting in June 1963 to that of John Kennedy in November the same year to those of Malcolm X in 1965, King in April 1968, Robert Kennedy in June of that year, and, finally, the attempt on former Alabama governor George Wallace in a Maryland shopping center in 1972. Not only is the crime of assassination contagious: Most people, at some level, know it. (Boston Globe)
The second of the four was the assassination of Malcolm X. Malcolm X was an explosive force in the racial dynamics of the United States in the early 1960s ... Omitting Malcolm X in any counting of 1960s events of historical significance insults the memory of a great American. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
From W.E.B. DuBois to Booker T. Washington to Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X to Martin Luther King, this internal debate has raged between integration and nationalism, between accommodation and militancy, between sit-down strikes and boardroom negotiations ... Of course, even James Cone, the radical founder of black-liberation theology, sees himself as synthesizing the moderation of Martin Luther King Jr. with the radicalism of Malcolm X. Obama here seems to be calling for an inside/outside strategy... (CBS News)
wow wrote on May 30, 2008 1:45 PM:" Obama isn't without sin and has on several occassions shown his inexperience, but that may not be all bad. I do agree that he cannot be running around calling the ladies "honey" because that reflects back to the dirty day's of the dress. Nor is is smart for Obama to paraphrasing the late Malcolm X. However in all of this, the days do look better for America as a nation. Yet as we've all learned, in order to have the good day's we must endure the bad day's... (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Congressman Danny Davis and Leving will promote their upcoming "Fathers Who Care Expo for Today's Man," which will take place on June 7th, 2008 at Malcolm X College from 9am-5pm. WGCI-FM's Tony Sculfield will perform his stand-up comedy act at the Expo Luncheon at 12:00 noon. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Allen from New Iberia wrote on May 21, 2008 1:31 PM:" Yes, NI Citizen...I couldn't agree more, blame Barack Obama, blame Rev. Wright, blame the NAACP, blame Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., blame Malcolm X, blame Marcus Garvey, blame Nelson Mandela!!!! This kind of racist remark is constantly allowed on these iberianet.com posts and I think it's ridiculous that "undercover racists" from New Iberia choose this venue to air out there biased undertones...Vote for McCain, I bet the economy will... (New Iberia, LA)
Clinton Camp Stokes RFK Flap by Blaming Obama - The Talk. Clinton Camp Stokes RFK Flap by Blaming Obama. (The Drudge Report)
Written while working at dead-end jobs in administration (in her hometown of Sydney) and "doorbitching" at various Melbourne clubs, the blog was a three-year journey through the lows and lows of reality TV - her coverage of Big Brother's turkey- slapping incident, when no other site would touch it, was what first brought her to the attention of media professionals - dodgy international debate (like speculating whether Malcolm X was gay) and ranting celebrities (John Laws was given the nickname... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
"Why is it OK that people can wear Malcolm X shirts to work, and I can't have a flag on my truck?" Tillett asked. "This selective process has got to go, but it's far from being over.". (Florida Times-Union)
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