Malcolm X 
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
10/23/2020
Malcolm X Warned Us about the Pitfalls of Black Celebrities as Leaders
by Kyle T. Mays
The media’s overemphasis on the voices of Black celebrities obscures the voices of ordinary Black people, whose lives are vastly different from those who have wealth and visibility.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/15/2020
Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X (review essay)
A new biography of Malcolm X sets his political thought in the context of the midcentury Black communities where he lived and how his Black contemporaries saw him.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
8/31/2020
‘Ten Days in Harlem’: An Interview with Historian Simon Hall
An interview with historian Simon Hall examines the links between revolutionary Cuba, anticolonial rebellion, and civil rights militancy in the United States as revealed by Fidel Castro's 10-day visit to Harlem and the United Nations in 1960.
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/6/20
Who Really Killed Malcolm X? Fifty-five years later, the case may be reopened.
55 years after that bloody afternoon in February 1965, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is reviewing whether to reinvestigate the murder.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-26-18
Missing Malcolm X Writings, Long a Mystery, Are Sold
The unpublished material, or at least some of it, has suddenly emerged and was offered for sale at a Manhattan auction house, along with another artifact that scholars have never seen: the manuscript for the published book, which bears dense traces of Mr. Haley’s and Malcolm X’s complex negotiations over the finished text.
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SOURCE: NYT
3-6-18
Harvard historian says we should turn prisons into colleges
by Elizabeth Hinton
Elizabeth Hinton cites as an example a prison celebrated by a jailed Malcolm X. (It’s where he wanted to be sent.)
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SOURCE: New Historian
4-22-16
Excavation of Malcolm X Home Yields Link to Colonial Past
An excavation on the site of Malcolm X’s boyhood Boston-area home has yielded historical links not to the civil rights activist’s past, but to older periods of history – which could include the Colonial era.
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SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
2-21-15
Remembering Malcolm X Fifty Years Later
by Daniel Pipes
Malcolm X was anything but mainstream and the passage of a half century should not soften attitudes toward him.
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10-31-11
Who Killed Malcolm X? And Why?
by Fatima Begum
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such, I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
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