One other thing set The Autobiography of Malcolm X apart: its subject would not live to see book published — just as he had predicted. Alex Haley retired after 20 years with the Coast Guard in ...
In these interview excerpts, family and friends remember Malcolm X. Alex Haley, a novelist and journalist, began working on The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Malcolm in 1963. The book was ...
Sidney Poitier told Eddie Murphy to not compete with actors like Denzel Washington or Morgan Freeman for a role in 'Malcolm X ...
"Sidney Poitier said, 'You are not Denzel [Washington], and you are not Morgan [Freeman]. You are a breath of fresh air, and ...
Hollywood star Eddie Murphy revealed that actor-director Sidney Poitier advised him not to star in Malcom X which was ...
Eddie Murphy has revealed that he was warned against starring in an Oscar-nominated film by one of Hollywood's most iconic ...
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The assassination of Malcolm X
His memoir, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", written with Alex Haley and published eight months after his death, is seen as ...
A Life of Reinvention,” which carefully examined the civil rights leader in ways 1965’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley,” did not. But in another Pulitzer Prize ...