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Topic: Malcolm X

Muhammad Ali speaking with reporters after his 1967 federal indictment for refusing to be inducted into the U.S. armed forces. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

What became of Black celebrity activism?

Jerel Ezell
Malcolm X (Getty Images)

Malcolm X's family sues FBI, CIA, NYPD

Alex Galbraith
Genius: MLK/X (Nat Geo)

Falling for the MLK & Malcolm X fantasy

Melanie McFarland
Demonstrators hold up placards with images of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini who died while in the custody of Iran's morality police, during a demonstration in support of women and the Iranian protesters, on September 28, 2022. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Her name was Jîna Amini: That matters

Samaa Khullar
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Two policemen carry stretcher bearing Negro nationalist leader Malcolm X after he was downed by an assassin's bullets at a rally on February 21st. The 39-year-old Malcolm was pronounced dead at the hospital when he was taken for treatment. The assassination of the one-time Muslim official came one week after the bombing of his home on February 13th. (Getty Images / Bettmann / Contributor)

Did the FBI order Malcolm X's murder?

Bob Hennelly
Huey Newton and Ice Cube (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ice Cube helped launch my education

Darryl Robertson
"What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali" (Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights: Muhammad Ali Enterprises LLC Photo by Ken Regan © 2019 Muhammad Ali Enterprises LLC)

Telling Muhammad Ali's story in full

Rachel Leah
Malcolm X (Getty Images)

How people become anti-authoritarians

Bruce Levine - Alternet
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Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP/David Goldman)

Coming around on MLK, thanks to Grandma

D. Watkins
Malcolm X (Getty Images)

Malcolm X's work "coming home to Harlem"

Rachel Leah
"X Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation" (T Charles Erickson Photography)

Malcolm X: On stage and human at last

Rachel Leah
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Our public schools' diversity problem

Rann Miller - Alternet
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Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta in "Goodfellas" (Warner Bros.)

These are the 25 worst Oscar snubs ever

Rachel Leah
Hugh Hefner, Harold Washington and Sidney Poitier (AP/Suzanne Hanover)

Hugh Hefner's real legacy is racial

Rachel Leah
Bernie Sanders; Malcolm X (AP/Craig Ruttle)

Bernie wrong, Malcolm right

Chauncey DeVega
Cover detail of "Blood Brothers" (Basic Books)

"Can't afford to let me live"

Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith
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U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Director Ronald Davis, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, and San Francisco Chief of Police Greg Suhr (AP/Ben Margot)

"Baghdad by the Bay"

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
Booking photos of people arrested during the motorcycle gang related shooting at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015. (AP/McLennan County Sheriff's Office)

White America's Waco insanity

Brittney Cooper
Charles Barkley, Chris Rock, Bill Cosby (Reuters/Dominick Reuter/AP/Chris Pizzello/Todd Williamson/Photo montage by Salon)

Chris Rock's poisonous legacy

Mychal Denzel Smith
(Comedy Central/Ian White)

Why Obama can't show his rage

Sonali Chakravarti
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The vile pain of racial taunts

Brittney Cooper
Michael Eric Dyson, Martin Luther King, Jr. (AP/Evan Vucci)

How we get Dr. King wrong

Josh Eidelson
(AP)

Marches won't cut it anymore!

Brittney Cooper
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