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...movie's first minutes promise the fire this time. A Patton-size U.S. flag fills the screen and is set ablaze. Video clips of Los Angeles cops pummeling a helpless Rodney King are underlaid with the words of Malcolm X fulminating against the white devil. Flames of black rage gnaw at the fabric of the flag until it is burned into a huge X. America, the image says, created Malcolm X in a centuries-old crucible of race hatred. And the legacy of Malcolm, murdered in 1965, helped define the battered field of today's Stars and Stripes...
...compromise seems to be in the works. At theFaculty Council meeting, Task Force members andUndergraduate Council Chair Malcolm A. Heinicke'93 seemed poised to work together in formulatinga new definition...
Others, who had studied Malcolm X's writingsand views, said they were interested in SpikeLee's interpretation and stressed the importanceof the slain leader's ideas to people today...
...things he [Malcolm X] taught, like racialpride, economic independence and the importance ofcultural heritage, seem really applicable to thesituation right now," said Shirley Graham...
...sounds like a very good movie," he said."People will be able to approach his [Malcolm X's]life with questions on particular ethnicexperience and universal experiences we all havein common...