Thanks to Sean Blackmon and Jacqueline Luqman for hosting this discussion of Malcolm X, Netflix and Black Buying Power on By Any Means Necessary. REFERENCED ITEMS: The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power New Netflix Documentary Avoids the Why in Favor of the “Who Killed Malcolm X?” powered by Crowdcast
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By largely ignoring questions of “why” he was killed the new Netflix documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X?” largely ignores the important politics and ideas that made Malcolm X a symbol to this day of international revolutionary struggle. REFERENCED ITEMS: A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the Extreme Defining…
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“This collection of essays by Black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, is a critical response to Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Though lauded by many, Marable’s book was debated and denounced by others as a flawed biography, full of conjecture and errors and…
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