The College World Series is back in Omaha, but what can baseball fans do between games?KETV NewsWatch 7 has put together a list of popular and some not-so-well-known attractions around town for CWS fans to check out while they’re here.Attractions9/11 MemorialOutside of Omaha City Hall building in downtown, a sculpture honoring the victims of 9/11…
DETROIT – As the school year wraps up and comes to an end for the summer, one campus in Detroit found a way to send students off in style. The Paul Robeson Malcolm X Academy held its first ‘Around the World Fashion Mitindo’ on Friday (May 30). Mitindo means fashion show in Swahili. Parents and…
The remarkable life and afterlife of Malcolm X – CBS News Watch CBS News This month marks the 100th birthday of Malcolm X, the charismatic and defiant Black leader who electrified America with his blunt talk on civil rights, before he was assassinated in 1965. Correspondent Mark Whitaker, author of the new book “The Afterlife…
This month marks the 100th birthday of Malcolm X, the defiant, charismatic Black leader who electrified America with his blunt talk and biting humor. In his brief 39 years, Malcolm was many things: a street hustler who found religion in prison; a spokesman for the Nation of Islam who preached racial separatism; then, he became…
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Simon & Schuster In “The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America” (to be published May 13 by Simon & Schuster), journalist Mark Whitaker looks at how the influence of the charismatic figure who electrified America with…