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Malcolm X

Boomer Nostalgia: Can We Trust Our Past?

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jim Selman

I am generally not big on trips down memory lane, but there's a nice retrospective of the 60s I came across that was kind of fun. It seems like a long...

Brotherly Words To Obama...

Martin Lewis | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Martin Lewis

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

The NY Daily News' Stanley Crouch Fails to Understand the Legacy of Malcolm X

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Russell Simmons

Rappers, in the spirit of Malcolm X, point out contradictions. Both in their words and cultural dress codes, hip-hop defies the rigidity of people like Stanley Crouch.

Jim Brown on Barack Obama, Racism, Muhammad Ali, Hugh Hefner, Football, and Acting

Graham Bensinger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Graham Bensinger

The day after the presidential election, I sat down with Jim Brown. Brown discussed a wide range of topics, including what electing the first African American president means to him.

He's the President, Stupid

Beau Friedlander | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Beau Friedlander

Obama's peace train is on tracks that have led to the same place since Eisenhower first told America to beware the military-industrial complex.

Obama and Malcolm X: Far From Opposites

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Casey Gane-McCalla

Many people may see Malcolm X and Barack Obama as opposites of each other in the sphere of black political figure, but Malcolm's own family has come out publicly for Obama.