I was searching for posts about Malcolm and I found this thread. I remember the night this premiered on CBS. I was in the 10th grade and it came on at 9pm. The reason I know this is because it premiered after Diff'rent World. It was the episode that Whitley filed for unemployment and had to make a dress out of curtains. I missed the first 5 minutes of it, but I recorded everything after. Up to that point, I had only known about Malcolm X from Public Enemy and hip hop magazines(more on that later). I recorded this on a tape and stood up the entire time watching never sitting down. After it, I had a deep hatred for white people and the NOI. My thoughts have changed a bit since 1992 on that night, but it was just something that bothered me. I no longer hate white people or the NOI, but I'm not too fond of either. This came out around the same time as Spike's movie, probably a little before.
Since then, I was gathering almost every book I can find about Malcolm. I have so many of them about him, it takes up an entire book shelf on the top row. Four books I have are extremely rare and hard to get, unless you're willing to pay up to $250 for used copies. The best book about Malcom is The Dead Are Rising. It gives you a lot of information he left out of his autobiography. The worst book is by Manning Marable. He basically plagiarized Zak Kondo and Karl Evanzz books and added in that gay shyt. Btw, I have kept most of my hip hop magazines over the years, but one in particular I'm looking for was a Rap Pages issue back in early 1992. It had 10 of Malcolm'x best quotes and did an article on him months before the release of the film. This was back when Rap Pages had the comic series about the rap group trying to get on. I'd pay over $300 for that issue if I could find it today.
