Occupation: Professor Birth: May 13, 1950 Death: April 1, 2011
Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the….
The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963. What's sign….
I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage ag….
Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “u….
Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The ….
[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to….
Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle..
I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black peopl….
[Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America - what was the consequence of thei….
There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th an….
The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965]..
The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place..
What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so….
Anne Romaine collected her own parallel archive to [Alex] Haley..
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century..
In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a whole series of elabor….
At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race..
[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own ….
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures..
The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/raci….
Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out four-square against the Vietna….