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May 12, 2011, 08:27AM

Rescuing Malcolm X

"Embraced by Black Power activists, hip-hop artists, socialists, and black nationalists, Malcolm's iconography had been successfully rehabilitated enough by the 1990s to merit a major motion picture, an official U.S. postage stamp, and mainstream identification as King's angry but eloquent counterpart. Recognition came at a high cost."

More at the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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