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Reel-to-reel: A long-lost Malcolm X speech recovered
History Dept.
I was born just two years before Spike Lee's 1992 biopic about Malcolm X and starting in kindergarten, I have faced the question in an almost endless loop: are you named after him?
By
MALCOLM BURNLEY
| February 16, 2012
Review: A Prophet
Jacques Audiard's Scarface for the new millennium
Visionaries thrive behind bars: Dostoevsky, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X. "The truth is ugly," explains one would-be sage, Charles Manson. "So we put our prophets in prison."
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PETER KEOUGH
| March 02, 2010
Mixed Magic's When Fate Comes Knocking
Living history
It's been said before and it'll be said again: the election of Barack Obama casts a new light on the Civil Rights Movement. Or, in Ricardo Pitts-Wiley's words, "We get to tell the story in a different way."
By
JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ
| February 12, 2009
Vandal-in-chief
Shepard Fairey bombs the ICA
Shepard Fairey and his show "Supply and Demand" arrive at the Institute of Contemporary Art like a guerrilla general emerging from the jungle after his forces have taken the capital.
By
GREG COOK
| February 10, 2009
The 11th Annual Muzzle Awards
Silencing free speech
Freedom of expression may be guaranteed by the Constitution. But it’s an idea we have to fight for every day.
By
DAN KENNEDY
| July 05, 2008
Prodigy
H.N.I.C. Pt 2 | AAC
By the time this goes to press, Prodigy will be roughly 10 books and 2000 push-ups deep into the three-and-change prison term he picked up last year for illegal gun possession.
By
MARTÍN CABALLERO
| April 22, 2008
Dysfunction junction
A Delicate Balance; The Gibson Girl; Some Men
A Delicate Balance is 40 years old now, but like the patrician clan at the frightened heart of it, the play has good bones.
By
CAROLYN CLAY
| March 25, 2008
Scenes from childhood
The DeCordova’s classic kids photos, plus Pixnit’s graffiti, and Malcolm X
His head is bowed and his eyes are closed. It was three days before he was gunned down at Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom.
By
GREG COOK
| February 12, 2008
Mix surfing
Finding the finest of Basstown on line
Remixes are proliferating like benign viruses through the Web.
By
DAVID DAY
| July 30, 2007
Facing up
Letters to the Boston editor, March 9, 2007
“ Facing off over Facebook ” contained some very valuable information about university administrators’ increased role in monitoring students’ online activities.
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BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS
| March 07, 2007
Cooling it, Japanese-style
Fun Fair
You don’t have to be in Fort Myers or Fenway to know that Japan is big business.
By
MIKE MILIARD
| February 28, 2007
Dark days for history
Diverse city
Once again, it’s February. The shortest month of the year, our coldest stretch of weather and, hold on, it’s Black History Month, too.
By
SHAY STEWART-BOULEY
| February 07, 2007
A winter’s tale
The season ahead on area stages
Even as the family drama of your holiday comes to a close, there’s no need to don a kerchief and settle in for a long winter’s nap.
By
LIZA WEISSTUCH
| December 28, 2006
Sound off
One citizen journalist’s saga may bode poorly for the new arm of the press
Anyone who wants to understand the perils of being a citizen journalist in an age of DIY media should consider the case of Freeman Z.
By
MIKE MILIARD
| December 13, 2006
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