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51901, RE: So I'm crying, watching Malcolm X
Posted by okayplaya, Mon Jun-05-06 10:31 AM
Co-Sign on the Sam Cooke...one of the most heartbreaking sequences in film.

If you've read Haley's book, you'll want to check out a new Malcom X biography coming out in 2008. It's being written by Manning Marable, a professor of History and African-American studies at Columia.

Here's a link to a great interview he did last year around the 40th anniversary of X's tragic assassination.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/21/1458213

I won't post the text b/c it's really long, but take the time to read it if you're seriously interested.