Malcolm X
Culture
A Malcolm X opera is restaged for a ‘Black Panther’ world
The costuming moves from zoot suits to puffer jackets and onto an Afrofuturist spaceship
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In ‘The Dead Are Arising,’ Malcolm X’s spirit is still very much alive
Tamara Payne talks about the award-winning biography she wrote with her father
The Uplift
Today in black history: Malcolm X assassinated, John Lewis, Barbara Jordan and Nina Simone are born
The Undefeated edition’s black facts for Feb. 21
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The untold story of the inmate who helped shape Malcolm X’s future
To Malcolm, he was Bimbi. To me he was John Elton Bembry, my uncle.
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Album of the decade: Kendrick Lamar’s ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city’
Like ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X,’ the 2012 opus overflows with black rage, fear of abandonment, and a sobering understanding of death and rebirth
Culture
On the 55th anniversary of the March on Washington, a visit to three memorials: The Lincoln, the Audubon and the Lorraine Motel
‘It’s like, What happened? Where did Martin Luther King and Malcolm X’s messages go?’
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With ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee brings the fire this time
Film tells both a true story from the ‘70s and its connections to contemporary hate
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What if the Muhammad Ali we knew had never existed?
From his brief kinship with Malcolm X to the ‘Thrilla In Manila,’ five alternative universes for Ali — and the world
The Uplift
On this day in black history: Malcolm X assassinated, John Lewis, Barbara Jordan and Nina Simone are born
Black History Month The Undefeated edition: Feb. 21