I am currently reading this book! It is a fascinating, well researched book. Hats off to Les Payne (deceased)and Tamara Payne, his daughter. I'm so glad Tamara finished the book after her Dad passed away.
Excellent interview . I’m buying the book! I also saw the Netflix series on Malcom X incredibly interesting - finally learned why he used X and not his ‘slave’ name..
There would not have been a MLK, Jr if not for Malcolm X. His importance to the civil rights conversation can not be overstated. America chose "love thy neighbor" instead of "By any means necessary." MLK, Jr was worried and voiced his fears to his friend Mr. Harry Belafonte before his assassination, "had he led his people into a burning house?" He had in a sense done so because in 2021 we still have no voting rights or policing protections. America couldn't be trusted perhaps, Malcolm X was right...BB 🕊
A good new book on this published this year is "The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm A and Martin Luther King, Jr." by Peniel E. Joseph.
Malcolm X was a brilliant thinker, a moral man and an important figure in the modern day civil rights movement. He was our "Black Prince. A voice crying out in the wilderness." I remember the day of his humble burial. It was a sad day. We were to lose our Martin Luther King and our Black Prince. We must learn not to place our hopes on the lives of fragile men. But to form alliances of like minded people no one group can do this alone. Former President Barack Obama give us this new strategy to work with, coupled by the fact that a God given dream can not be killed with a bullet. The work must go on.. so we keep moving..Thank you. BB 🕊
Great interview and I’m so glad Michelle did this interview… could you imagine Hari interviewing this intelligent lady? Great job Michelle .. always a fan
I'm so moved to know that it earned the Pulitzer in 2021, I still have about 200 pages left, but I've so much more the context, and history of the time in which he walked this earth. The most inspiring American in my opinion!
Love his --who taught you speech. Think of it when I've read that Thurgood said...what has he ever done? What do you mean...what? Great conversation. More please, longer, a symposium. This was terrific.
Keep on keep'n on. What it is is what it is. You go girl. Word up. Peace out. The leader, peace be upon him, is a fake, peace be upon him. I didn't do it. It wasn't me. I done didn't do it. I was at my baby's momma's home. It weren't me. Temple o peace. Good God!
My father respected speeches by MalcolmX with a fear that some day he might be assassinated. My father grew up in Texas and knew what prejudice violent men were capable of.
Don't worry malcom x is a live. Bcz somebody who died with the ideas of liberating is people. Just being died the body, his ideas will alway spreading like corona virus. So malcom x, 2 pac, haile selasie, kwameh n'kulumah, Julius Nyerere, Robert mugabe, Patrick emery lumumba, samora moises machel, muhamal quadaffi ect... Are all alife bcz they ideas are spreading
But you know what might have really done the brotha in? That he threatened to take the case against America to the UN... Oh yea, that would have been a problem, repeatedly!!
I think you might be over estimating the power that an individual petitioning the UN can have. Mandela and South Africa informs about how little power the UN was ever meant to have.
Please stop🛑. Those innocent men out of New York didn’t even know who Bradley was. Thomas Hagan did know William Bradley & he eventually told the authorities, as well as signed an affidavit. If Malcolm’s security team that night, were familiar with them Jersey mosque boys, the way they were with them New York mosque boys, they would have never let Hagan, or the three accomplices he named (which included Bradley), in the Audubon Ballroom. Now if you’re implying that this was a law enforcement (local police & FBI) coverup, there’s zero proof that law enforcement wanting innocent individuals to go to prison, opposed to the actual killers. This was a societal cultural lynching. If Hagan would have confessed during the trial or at his arrest (instead of years into his conviction) and named his accomplices, those dudes would have been spared.
I am currently reading this book! It is a fascinating, well researched book.
Hats off to Les Payne (deceased)and Tamara Payne, his daughter. I'm so glad Tamara finished the book after her Dad passed away.
The autobiography of Malcolm X is a powerful read. A man of reinvention, like no other!
Excellent interview . I’m buying the book! I also saw the Netflix series on Malcom X incredibly interesting - finally learned why he used X and not his ‘slave’ name..
There would not have been a MLK, Jr if not for Malcolm X. His importance to the civil rights conversation can not be overstated. America chose "love thy neighbor" instead of "By any means necessary." MLK, Jr was worried and voiced his fears to his friend Mr. Harry Belafonte before his assassination, "had he led his people into a burning house?" He had in a sense done so because in 2021 we still have no voting rights or policing protections. America couldn't be trusted perhaps, Malcolm X was right...BB 🕊
Wrong again. You need to read history.
A good new book on this published this year is "The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm A and Martin Luther King, Jr." by Peniel E. Joseph.
STANDING Tall to injustice......
Malcolm X was a brilliant thinker, a moral man and an important figure in the modern day civil rights movement. He was our "Black Prince. A voice crying out in the wilderness." I remember the day of his humble burial. It was a sad day. We were to lose our Martin Luther King and our Black Prince. We must learn not to place our hopes on the lives of fragile men. But to form alliances of like minded people no one group can do this alone. Former President Barack Obama give us this new strategy to work with, coupled by the fact that a God given dream can not be killed with a bullet. The work must go on.. so we keep moving..Thank you. BB 🕊
Wrong. At the end of his life he MAY have become a Christian, but you be the judge! Otherwise, he was a killer.
The book is an incredible work. I highly recommend it for a more thorough understanding of a giant.
Thank you! " He out grows the Nation" 🙏
Great interview and I’m so glad Michelle did this interview… could you imagine Hari interviewing this intelligent lady? Great job Michelle .. always a fan
I'm so moved to know that it earned the Pulitzer in 2021, I still have about 200 pages left, but I've so much more the context, and history of the time in which he walked this earth. The most inspiring American in my opinion!
Excellent interview 💯
Agreed ... interesting.
Love his --who taught you speech. Think of it when I've read that Thurgood said...what has he ever done? What do you mean...what?
Great conversation.
More please, longer, a symposium. This was terrific.
Thank you to Tamara & Les Payne. Compelling stuff. Keep on keeping on...✊💜🌍
Keep on keep'n on. What it is is what it is. You go girl. Word up. Peace out. The leader, peace be upon him, is a fake, peace be upon him. I didn't do it. It wasn't me. I done didn't do it. I was at my baby's momma's home. It weren't me. Temple o peace. Good God!
He was fixed on onther level of life.
Daring,and academic in his views.
I saw the film, and felt hate for white America! Sorry
Great overview, I would like a more in-depth analysis and interview.
My father respected speeches by MalcolmX with a fear that some day he might be assassinated. My father grew up in Texas and knew what prejudice violent men were capable of.
Don't worry malcom x is a live. Bcz somebody who died with the ideas of liberating is people. Just being died the body, his ideas will alway spreading like corona virus. So malcom x, 2 pac, haile selasie, kwameh n'kulumah, Julius Nyerere, Robert mugabe, Patrick emery lumumba, samora moises machel, muhamal quadaffi ect... Are all alife bcz they ideas are spreading
But you know what might have really done the brotha in?
That he threatened to take the case against America to the UN...
Oh yea, that would have been a problem, repeatedly!!
I think you might be over estimating the power that an individual petitioning the UN can have. Mandela and South Africa informs about how little power the UN was ever meant to have.
Ha! If you held a gun to Tamara Payne's head and asked her why those two innocent men went to prison she would scream, " To protect William Bradley!".
Please stop🛑. Those innocent men out of New York didn’t even know who Bradley was. Thomas Hagan did know William Bradley & he eventually told the authorities, as well as signed an affidavit.
If Malcolm’s security team that night, were familiar with them Jersey mosque boys, the way they were with them New York mosque boys, they would have never let Hagan, or the three accomplices he named (which included Bradley), in the Audubon Ballroom.
Now if you’re implying that this was a law enforcement (local police & FBI) coverup, there’s zero proof that law enforcement wanting innocent individuals to go to prison, opposed to the actual killers.
This was a societal cultural lynching. If Hagan would have confessed during the trial or at his arrest (instead of years into his conviction) and named his accomplices, those dudes would have been spared.