National Review, December 28th, 1992
INTO his short life, Malcolm X (1925-1965) packed many careers, from criminal to ascetic; and many ideologies, from extremist white-hating black nationalism to some sort of incipient tolerance and ecumenism. I know no more about the Black Muslim orator and organizer than anyone would who lived in New York City during the first lustrum of the Sixties, when Malcolm X's rise within the Nation of Islam, expulsion, and murder made headlines, and I am not especially qualified to assess the value of Spike Lee's three-hour-and-twenty-one-minute Malcolm X from the historical standpoint (for that see ...
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