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Thirty-two years after Malcolm X was gunned down in a New York City auditorium, his widow would still speak of him at times in the present tense. "Malcolm thinks," Betty Shabazz might say. Or, "Malcolm's advice is..." On May 19 she attended celebrations to mark what would have been his 72nd birthday. "This has been the greatest day of my life," she told friends later. "Everywhere I went, I heard his voice on tapes." But after her husband's death, Shabazz didn't exactly linger in the past. She got a doctorate in education administration, eventually became director...
Campaign 55 does not account for taste, which has become a more complicated issue. The older boomers get, the more they worry about food quality. "McDonald's got obsoleted on their food," says Malcolm M. Knapp, a food-industry consultant based in Manhattan. "For a long time, it was good enough to be consistent and clean. Now America wants taste." That was the idea behind the Arch Deluxe, which the company unveiled last year after extensive testing, promoting the product as a burger for grownups. It bombed. Arch Deluxe failed to deliver on the taste front. Says franchisee LuAnn Perez...
Less than one year later, Wilson's appointment as Malcolm Wiener professor of social policy at the Kennedy School of Government was announced...
...curriculum. Intellectual independence can be developed by studying authors such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives such as the prison letters of George Jackson or the autobiography of Malcolm X, or by listening to musicians such as the Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, or Rage Against the Machine...
...America has come a long way since the civil rights days of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, but racism now appears in subtler forms," Jones said, adding that the key to changing the status quo is to "find new ways to see each other...