Malcolm X

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The Top 10 Rightblogger Stories of 2008

Excited (not to say deranged) by the long Presidential campaign, conservative bloggers -- rightbloggers, in our affectionate parlance -- were in top form this year, and outstripped the sleepy Main Stream Media in every way. If mainstream Republicans were content to call Obama a socialist, rightblogg ... More >>

Clip Job: Malcolm X Surprisingly Inspirational

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 20, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 48Black on BlackBy Robert Brookins GoreI left Community Church some months ago with mixed feelings. The occasion was a so-called debate between Malcolm X and Bayard Rustin, and the topic was "Separation and Integ ... More >>

Spring Art Preview: Kerry James Marshall's Black Whole

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Emancipation: Nat Turner's Come and Gone

The site of Malcolm X's killing hosts a new play

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More hits than misses at this year's fest

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More hits than misses at this year's fest

Beat It!

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Your Face or Mine?

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Speech & No Debate

Rebel Voices shows the limits of liberal good intentions

What Becomes a Legend Most?

Selling King's Papers; Reclaiming Malcolm X's

Really Black Humor

White Boy Shuffle author digs through the crates for a surprising set of yuks

Wednesday 7/19

White Boy Shuffle author digs through the crates for a surprising set of yuks

Malcolm X vs. Khallid Abdul Muhammad

Malcolm: 'I'm Not Against Jews. I'm Against Racists.'

Too Deep for Anger

To be Black in this Country is to Always Affirm Something

Rage Against Muhammad

An investigation by the joint terrorist task force adds to the Million Youth March leader's woes

FBI Probes Purloined X Files

How did Malcolm's bullet-riddled diary land on the auction block?

Not Only Built 4 Cuban Bronx

La Revolución embraces Hip-Hop—with Fidel’s blessing

Fully Booked

Photography Collections to Make the Season Bright

Misguided Multiculturalism

Our Historical Illiteracy

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The Fall 2001 Fashion Shows

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Crocodile Rock

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No Masses, No Movement

Black Boomers Shout Reparations in the Court—But Go Silent in the 'Hood

Home to Harlem

Malcolm X Archive Goes to the Schomburg

El Pueblo Unido

Making the Case for a United Latino Front

Up on the Bayou

Where the Catfish Doesn't Bite

Goodwill Hunting

A Guide to Thrift Shop Furniture

New York Rally for Slave Reparations Searches for Focus

A Guide to Thrift Shop Furniture

1965

A Guide to Thrift Shop Furniture

Nationalism of Fools

Farrakhan Brings It All Back Home

Gettin' Dibi With It

West African boite expands the Senegalese menu

Letters 6.11.08

West African boite expands the Senegalese menu

Clip Job: Malcolm X Moving in a New Direction

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 4, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 33Whites Cheer Malcolm X For Blasts at WhitesBy Susan Goodman"It doesn't make me sad at all, if it does exist." This statement came from Malcolm X on the alleged band of karate-trained "blood brothers" reportedly killin ... More >>

Clip Job: Jack Newfield's 'Mugging the White Liberal'

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 25, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 36Mugging the White LiberalBy Jack NewfieldImagine three goldfish dropped into a fish tank filled with sharks. Or imagine Billy Budd mugged by the Emperor Jones.Then you might have some idea of the malevolent and paran ... More >>

Malcolm X Farmers Market Headed for Imminent Closure?

Seamus Murray/flickr​Brownstoner brings sad news, via the Bed-Stuy Blog, that Bed-Stuy's Malcolm X farmers market is in danger of closing. The market's main vendor, Migliorelli Farm, recently announced it will be pulling out of the market because it hasn't been earning enough there to pay for its ... More >>

Clip Job: Burying Malcolm X

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 4, 1965, Vol. X, No. 20Burying Malcolm XBy Marlene NadleIt was a strange funeral on Saturday. At Faith Temple, Church of God in Christ, the altar was decorated with policemen. In a bronze coffin El-Hajj Malik Shabazz, wrapped in the whit ... More >>

Biopics Ain't What They Used To Be

Bright Star​In the old days, Hollywood effortlessly churned out glossy commercial vehicles about history makers like Louis Pasteur, Alexander Graham Bell, and Madame Curie--schoolbook-like material turned into films which, against all odds, managed to get good notices and an audience too. And ... More >>

Percy Sutton: Class Act

​Legendary Harlem pol and business entrepreneur Percy Sutton slipped away this weekend at 89, and he rightly deserves the many tributes he's now receiving. He was one of 15 children born to a former slave from south Texas. He became a Tuskegee airman and won twin combat stars for doing battle ... More >>

Breaking: Malcolm X's Killer Paroled, is a Free Man Next Month

​Thomas Hagan, the only man who ever admitted involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X, will be getting out of jail next month. Hagan was granted parole on March 3rd and is scheduled to be released on April 28th.

The Real Sugar Hill Records Story: In-House Drummer Keith Le Blanc on the Myths Surrounding Rap's First Label

​"I don't think the true Sugar Hill Records story has ever been told because there's so much skull-duggery attached to it," says Keith Le Blanc, the one-time in-house drummer for Sugar Hill Records. The pioneering New York label, which brought hip-hop to the world's ears in 1979 with the Sugar ... More >>

Malcolm X Had Gay Sex! He Joins A Historic Club!

​A new book about Malcolm X says the controversial civil rights leader had an early homosexual relationship with a white businessman, according to The New York Times. And he's not alone! Anyone with a kindle will learn of a whole bevy of historical figures who turn out to have been "that way ... More >>

Malikah Shabazz, Malcom X's Daughter, Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft

Malcom X​Earlier today, Malikah Shabazz, Malcom X's youngest daughter, pleaded guilty to identity theft. Shabazz, 45, stole the identity of a family friend, Khaula Bakr, and accumulated debt of more than $55,000 in her name. Bakr is the 70-year-old widow of one of Malcolm X's bodyguards. Shaba ... More >>

Muhammad Ali Time Capsule in Long-Lost Movie

Malcom X​Earlier today, Malikah Shabazz, Malcom X's youngest daughter, pleaded guilty to identity theft. Shabazz, 45, stole the identity of a family friend, Khaula Bakr, and accumulated debt of more than $55,000 in her name. Bakr is the 70-year-old widow of one of Malcolm X's bodyguards. Shaba ... More >>

Best in Show: Harun Farocki at MoMA

Plus: Frans Hals at the Met; Romare Bearden at the Schomburg Center

No Swine on My Mind

​This pizza parlor on Malcolm X in Harlem offers an expanded menu of diner food, with the assurance that there is no pork on the premises. On Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, an earlier establishment has a similar name: Mookie's No Pork on My Fork.