Malcolm & Symbolic Victories

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Episode Summary “The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.” In this episode, Malcolm X’s words help make sense of current events. This time, Phillip and Taelor tackle what Malcolm has to say about symbolic victories and how that coincides with the recent decision to […]

Malcolm’s Intellectual Integrity

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Episode Summary “Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of […]

Malcolm Slandered

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Episode Summary “When I am dead — I say it that way because, from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form — I want you just to watch and see if I’m not right in what I say: that the white man, […]

Malcolm Misunderstood

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Episode Summary “Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.” In this first episode of Make It Plain, our hosts Taelor Gray and Phillip Holmes introduce […]