1925
May 19 - Malcolm Little is born in Omaha, Nebraska to father and Baptist preacher, Earl Little and mother, Louise Little.
1926
The Little’s move to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1927
Earl Little becomes the leader of the UNIA chapter in Indiana Harbor, Indiana.
1928
The Little’s buy a home in Lansing, Michigan.
1929
November 7 – The Little home is set on fire and burned down.
1931
September 28 – Earl Little dies after he was run over by a streetcar. It is rumored that he was murdered by a white supremacist group.
1939
January 9 – Louise Little is committed to the State Mental Hospital in Kalamazoo after she is declared mentally insane.
August – Malcolm is sent to the Michigan State Detention Home.
September – Malcolm begins school at Mason High School in Mason, Michigan.
1940
Malcolm is placed in foster care.
1941
Malcolm moves to Boston to live with his paternal half sister.
1943
March - Moves to New York City, and begins working for the New Haven Railroad. After being fired from New Haven, Malcolm works as a waiter in Harlem.
October – U.S.
Army determines that he is not qualified to serve in the army.
Malcolm begins selling drugs, playing the numbers, and hustling.
1944
November 9 – Malcolm is indicted for larceny and is given a three month suspended sentence. He is placed on probation for one year.
1946
January 12 – Malcolm is arrested in Boston for larceny, carrying firearms, and breaking and entering.
February 27 – Begins serving 8-10 year prison sentence in Charleston, Massachusetts. Malcolm begins reading in prison.
1948
Malcolm learns about the teachings of Elijah Muhammad.
1952
August 7 - Malcolm is released from prison and placed on parole. Moves to Detroit where he lives with his brother and works as a furniture salesman.
1953
February - Begins attending Nation of Islam meetings.
Moves to Chicago and lives with Elijah Mohammad.
September – Becomes the minister of the Nation of Islam Boston Temple No. 11.
1954
Becomes the minister of New York Temple No. 7.
1955
Becomes the minister of Philadelphia Temple No. 12.
1956
August 25 - Lectures to Nation of Islam members at the Southern Goodwill Tour of the Brotherhood of Islam in Atlanta, Georgia.
1958
January 14 – Malcolm marries Betty X (Sanders) in Lansing, Michigan.
August 1 – Speaks at a Nation of Islam street meeting in Manhattan.
November – Malcolm’s daughter, Attilah, is born.
1959
July 5 - Malcolm travels to Egypt, Mecca, Iran, Syria, and Ghana as an ambassador for the Nation of Islam.
The television documentary, “The Hate That Hate Produced” features the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X.
1925 - 1965
1960
September 21 – Meets with Fidel Castro at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem.
December – Malcolm’s daughter, Qubilah, is born.
1961
March 24 – Malcolm debates Walter Carrington of the NAACP at Harvard Law School.
May 13 – Malcolm is the speaker at the Nation of Islam Freedom Rally in Manhattan.
1962
May 20 - Malcolm speaks at a rally held at the Park Manor Auditorium.
Malcolm learns that Elijah Muhammad is an adulterer who has children with three former secretaries.
July - Malcolm’s third daughter, Llyasah, is born.
1963
February 13 – Serves as leader of a Muslim demonstration in Times Square.
May – James Baldwin interviews Malcolm on television.
June – Kenneth Clark interviews Malcolm on television.
August 28 – Malcolm attends the March on Washington as an observer. He is critical of the event stating that he does not understand why blacks are excited about the demonstration since it is “run by whites in front of a statue of a president who has been dead for a hundred years and who didn’t like us when he was alive.”
August 10 – Speaks in Harlem at Unity rally.
October 22 – Speaks at Wayne state University in Detroit.
December 1 – After John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Malcolm makes his controversial speech about the “chickens coming home to roost” at a Nation of Islam rally held in New York.
December 4 – Because of Malcolm’s statement about the assassination of Kennedy, Elijah Muhammad restricts him from speaking for ninety days.
1964
January – Begins collaboration with Alex Haley on his autobiography.
March 26 – Meets Martin Luther King after King’s news conference.
March – Malcolm splits with the Nation of Islam and forms the Muslim Mosque, Inc.
April – Malcolm travels to Mecca and throughout Africa under the name, Malik El-Shabazz. While in Mecca, he changes his opinion about white people after he experiences the unity of the races.
June 28 – Forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) to help in the civil rights struggle.
July – Malcolm returns to Africa, meets with African leaders, and attends the second African Summit Conference in Cairo, Egypt.
December – Malcolm’s daughter, Amiliah, is born.
1965
February 14 – Malcolm’s house is firebombed.
February 18 – Speaks at Columbia University.
February 21 – While speaking at a OAAU rally in the Audubon Ballroom at 3:10 p.m., Malcolm is shot several times. Malcolm is pronounced dead upon arrival at the Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
February 27 – Funeral services begin for Malcolm and the eulogy is given by actor and playwright, Ossie Davis.
Malcolm’s twin daughters, Malaak and Malikah, are born.
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T H E M O S T F A M O U S L E G A L P O A M “A groom must expect matrimonial pandemonium/ When his spouse finds he’s given her cubic zirconium.” So begins a dissent by Justice J. Michael Eakin in the 2002 case of Porreco v. Porreco, which addressed whether a wife fairly relied on her husband’s claim that an engagement ring was worth $21,000 when, in fact, the stone in it was fake. I resurrect this couplet in response to Diane’s call to celebrate National Poetry month, but also to make a serious point about poetry & law. As the N.Y. Times then reported, the rhyming judge drew the ire of some colleagues. Chief Justice Stephen A. Zappala wrote that “an opinion that expresses itself in rhyme reflects poorly on the Supreme Court of Pa.” Other judicial lyricists have been similarly criticized by their peers. Generally, I am w/ the critics. At least since Plato banished the poet from his ideal republic, law & poetry seem like things to be valued separately. One is reminded of Balzac’s comment that he liked women’s hair & that he liked soup, but not women’s hair in his soup.In a 1986 essay, Robert Cover explains why we hold the 2 enterprises apart. He observes that law is different from other textual enterprises because judges “deal pain & death.”In this they are different from poets, critics, artists, he contends.“It will not do to insist on the violence of strong poetry, & strong poets.Even the violence of weak judges is utterly real—a naïve but immediate reality, in need of no interpretation, no critic to reveal it.” This point may explain why, as Benjamin Cardozo once noted, dissents (which do not deal immediate pain or death) are more likely to be literary than majority opinions. Even the otherwise unrepentant Justice Eakin included his couplet in a dissent & assured the Times that he would never rhyme in a “serious criminal case. ”But like every generalization, the idea that law is a serious business while literature is an ornamental pastime has some importa
On December 10th bureaucrats at the Food and Drug Administration sent what was effectively a cease-and-desist letter to Coca-Cola, informing them that their use of the word “Plus” in Diet Coke Plus, based on the inclusion of vitamins and minerals in the product, did not meet the FDA’s definition.
This issue ultimately comes down to one of personal responsibility. Does it make sense that money you earn is taken from you to pay the salary of some bureaucrats in Washington so that they can determine whether a product can be deemed “Plus” or not? Hell, I’d say, let folks keep their coin and make their own decisions. If anything, it’ll cause them to be more cognizant of what they’re putting into their bodies. And if folks think Coke’s use of the word “Plus” is excessive they can write the company letters or vote with their dollars and buy another product.
The FDA’s actions are nothing more than doublespeak pure and simple, and if we start allowing government actors to define words pretty soon they’ll have us believing that corruption and inefficiency are good things.
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Occupied, terrorized, genocide while the whole world is hypnotized, Sixty years, incessant tears no day passes by without countless fears For our lives, our wives, our children cry yet the world turns away, and our spirits die. For my land, I do stand but I remain hopeless without a helping hand, Oppression, suppression, depression of every aspect of my life, you've taken possession, Our weapons are stones, to protect our homes but your bulldozers win and terror roams, Yours are tanks, helicopters, and military jeeps to kill the young man, as his mother weeps, You control our electricity, you control our seas you control our streets, and uproot our trees, You close our schools, our children can't learn you deny the refugees their right to return, Suffering orphans, under your persecution when they rise up, they face execution, Families are separated, and farmers (merely) recall the land they lost by your Apartheid Wall, Through your diplomacy and your foreign relations you attempt to justify and give credence to your occupations, Palestine is my land, and I won't let you take it and while you put the world to sleep, I try to wake it. PLEASE PASS THIS ON!!!!
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