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Malcom X

Final Thoughts on Beer Summits and Postracial Paradoxes

Jonathan Rieder | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X, Beer Summit, Obama, Obama Gates Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Obama Racism, Post Racial, Politics News
Jonathan Rieder

Now that the dust from the Gates dust-up has settled, a bit of perspective is in order. Glib invocations of a color-blind society were always too breathless.

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TriBeCa Interview: Spike Lee Doin' Work

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 04.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Hbo, Bamboozled, Hbo-Real-Sports, Kobe Bryant, Do the Right Thing, Five for Five, Do-the-Right-Thing, LA Lakers, Best Seat in the House With Ralph Wiley, She's Gotta Have It, Spike Lee, Mo' Better Blues, Kobe Doin' Work, 4 Little Girls, Passing Strange, Crooklyn, Malcom X, Media News
Matthew-Lee Erlbach

The goal in fiction and documentary making is to tell the story. I never try to lose sight of that.

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Al Zawahiri: Much Ado About Nothing

Jamal Dajani | Posted 12.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Malcom X, Islam, Osama Bin Laden, Cnn, Terrorism, Fox News, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda Obama, 'Slave' in Arabic, Negro, 'Negro' in Arabic, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Media News
Jamal Dajani

It still amazes me how after seven years, the U.S. media is still suckered by what al-Qaeda leaders have to say or preach. Hardly anyone in the Middle East these days pays close attention to their speeches.

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