In the year of 1960s, the civil right movement was at its peak. At this time, blacks were mistreated and discriminated against and because of that, the Negroes were searching for a leader who can change the status of blacks. What is a leader? A leader is, according to a dictionary, a guiding or directing head, as of an army, movement, or political group. There […]

How is it that a man who was completely illiterate, a criminal and even worse he was black, in a time that meant you were less than a dog, could go on to lead a nation of black people towards freedom? Malcolm X is the classical story of tenacity, adversity, and determination and his end result was triumph. To Malcolm X reading was the most […]

Throughout the Civil Rights movement in the United States, no two people were moreinfluential than Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK) and Malcolm X. The popular opinion nowadays isto idolize MLK’s philosophy of peaceful protest and racial unity as the goal we are striving toachieve as a society, while labelling Malcolm X’s philosophy as crude, primitive, and irrational. In this essay, I want to challenge the […]

Multicultural Issues Identity Formation: Malcolm X Everyday African-Americans go through identity formation. Identity formation is the development of the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity. While watching the movie, Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington as Malcolm, he shows many stages of identity formation. His whole life, he went by taking chances. The choices and decisions he made either ended good of […]

Book Review: Terrill’s Malcolm X Inventing Radical Judgment Terrill, Robert. Malcolm X: inventing radical judgment. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004. Print. When saying the name Malcolm X many things come to mind extremist, violence, racists, but usually not motivational speaker. Catalytic is defined as increasing a reaction rate, Terrill uses this term to describe Malcolm X ‘s rhetoric style that left him a […]