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Saturday, February 19. Lee’s “Malcolm X” (U.S., 1992). 7 P.M. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6 Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
...slave trade. He was the father of the Pan-African movement and the grandfather of the civil rights and African nationalist movements of the 1950s and 1960s and the black self-determination efforts of the 1970s. Without Garvey, there would be no Black Panther Party, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X or even Bob Marley. Just as the leaders and activists of the past were able to draw from Garvey’s intellectual and political heritage to improve the condition of black people, we, both black and non-black people of conscience, must also ask ourselves: What can Garvey...
...ninth decade playing a nursing-home codger who believes he's John F. Kennedy ("They dyed me") in the cult comedy Bubba Ho-tep and a judge in Lee's latest film, She Hate Me. In the '60s he spoke at Martin Luther King Jr.'s and Malcolm X's funerals. At the latter, he said, "In honoring him, we honor the best of ourselves." The best of us was in Ossie Davis. --By Richard Corliss
...plans to build on its success at home to become the first Chinese automaker to crack the American market. It revealed plans to offer five models last week, including an SUV, at costs below anything riveted together by Detroit's Big Three. It has teamed with a legendary partner--Malcolm Bricklin, who brought the Subaru to America in the 1960s. Bricklin describes Chery as "ambitious like crazy," and his New York--based firm, Visionary Vehicles, plans to import up to a quarter of a million Cherys a year starting...
Apparently, it drives Malcolm Gladwell crazy too because he has written a whole book about it titled Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown; 277 pages). Gladwell isn't a psychologist or a tennis pro. He's a journalist, a staff writer for the New Yorker, but he likes to dabble in those kinds of intriguing, messily interdisciplinary problems, to which he brings his singularly lucid, clarifying intellect...