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Popping the Marks

Remembering Master Fard Muhammad

February 26 is Saviors’ Day, the birthday of the founder of the Nation of Islam. Master Fard Muhammad will probably never get his due for his contribution, but the biggest challenge to fully appreciating him may be that he so effectively escaped history. Full story

2013 Feb 26 Michael Muhammad Knight Stuff

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Popping the Marks

Lifetime’s Assassination of Malcolm X

In the Lifetime Original Movie 'Betty & Coretta,' they present cardboard versions of what I like to call "Early Malcolm" and "Real Malcolm." But Early Malcolm and Real Malcolm are not real. They are both fabrications that serve to oversimplify a complex human being. Full story

2013 Feb 5 Michael Muhammad Knight Stuff

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Question of the Day

What Would MLK Say About Today's America?

"He would totally celebrate with Obama. They would have a heart-to-heart and Obama would be inspired even more. It would be a really awesome meeting. I can only imagine them doing dinner together and sitting in one room privately, without cameras." Full story

2013 Jan 22 VICE Staff Stuff

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I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore

J. Spaceman on the Strange and Beautiful Canon of Mississippi Records

I've always had this belief that if you produce something beautiful, and it's packaged beautifully and has had some love and attention invested in it, then somebody will want it. Full story

2008 May 1 J. Spaceman Music

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