Malcolm X

Taking Some Hacks with Charles McGill

Play them as they lie

Racial Film Classic Gets a Revival

Michael Roemer's 1964 drama Nothing But a Man--a classic about a black worker in the South who won't play by the white man's condescending rules--is back at at Film Forum and looking really sturdy. I saw it there on Friday night, where I was impressed all over again by the excellent, unmannered act ... More >>

Grace Lee Boggs, Nonagenarian Activist, Speaking At The New School Tonight

Grace Lee Boggs, the 96-year-old political activist from Detroit, will be speaking at the New School tonight. The Voice had the chance to interview Boggs on Friday and will be posting our interview next week. Though confined to a wheelchair, the nonagenarian activist keeps up a busy work and travel ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 18-24, 2012

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.

Best in Show: Harun Farocki at MoMA

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

Muhammad Ali Time Capsule in Long-Lost Movie

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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: 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 >>

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: 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 >>

Another Take on Obamamania

Afro-Punk Lives On

More hits than misses at this year's fest

Letters 6.11.08

Emancipation: Nat Turner's Come and Gone

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

Spring Art Preview: Kerry James Marshall's Black Whole

Battling art's blind spot

Your Face or Mine?

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Gettin' Dibi With It

West African boite expands the Senegalese menu

Roaring Over Ratner

Wednesday 7/19

Really Black Humor

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

1965

Nationalism of Fools

Farrakhan Brings It All Back Home

Beat It!

Soul Summit gets one last dance; movie nite; Mellie R.I.P.

New York Rally for Slave Reparations Searches for Focus

Goodwill Hunting

A Guide to Thrift Shop Furniture

Up on the Bayou

Where the Catfish Doesn't Bite

El Pueblo Unido

Making the Case for a United Latino Front

Home to Harlem

Malcolm X Archive Goes to the Schomburg

Crocodile Rock

No Masses, No Movement

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

Letters

What Becomes a Legend Most?

Selling King's Papers; Reclaiming Malcolm X's

Horoscope

Black Blueprint

On the Offensive

The Fall 2001 Fashion Shows

Misguided Multiculturalism

Our Historical Illiteracy

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Fully Booked

Photography Collections to Make the Season Bright

Not Only Built 4 Cuban Bronx

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

FBI Probes Purloined X Files

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

Malcolm X vs. Khallid Abdul Muhammad

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

Rage Against Muhammad

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

Too Deep for Anger

To be Black in this Country is to Always Affirm Something