A THANK-YOU CARD TO ABENA WALKER AND ASKIA MUHAMMAD (A Book Review In Poem Form)

ASKIA! ABENA! Saw both at separate times while hawking T’ChallaA marketing MarvelThe Black Cat unifying the white movie theater and Black lecture hallAfrikan Panther Power brought to you by Mickey Mouse Askia has quilted his scribing life of red, black, green and white (house)“The Autobiography of Charles 67X”A Black NPR SoundPrint on rewindA map to…

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New Netflix Documentary Avoids the Why in Favor of the “Who Killed Malcolm X?”

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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That Time Toni Morrison Edited Muhammad Ali’s Autobiography

“‘I don’t like boxing, but he was a thing apart. His grace was almost appalling.” — Toni Morrison on Muhammad Ali, in the David Remnick book King of the World Muhammad Ali, dethroned by the United States of America but still a baadddd dude, was looking for a publisher for his autobiography in 1970. Five years…

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