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Approximately 100 people turned out at the Hillel last night to listen to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III discuss 1960s civil rights activist Malcolm X, the man who once called himself "the angriest Black man in America...
...Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, J. D. LaRock '95 and David L. Duncan '93 indicated yesterday that they would seek the council's stop position...
...movie director Spike Lee set off a small tabloid uproar not long ago when he suggested that young blacks should skip school if necessary to see his movie biography of Malcolm X when it opens this fall. A hideously wrong message, people said, undermining discipline and education. But Spike Lee understands a central truth: what is occurring today is a war of American myths, a struggle of contending stories. And pop culture, often television, is the arena in which it is being fought...
...scholarship on Malcolm X and thepolitics of race--in addition to his experience asdean of students--that Epps believes qualifies himto be "race czar...
...Because of the Malcolm X book and earlierworks, it is probably thought that I have somecompetence and understanding," says Epps, whoconcedes that his race was likely considered inthe decision as well. "I also have some strengthsin mediation and negotiation badly needed in thissituation...