Will They Do Me Like Malcolm?

Today would be Malcolm X's 85th birthday. Obviously, the former Nation of Islam leader is being remembered with articles like this:

"In the last years of their lives, they were starting to move toward one another," says David Howard-Pitney, who recounted the Capitol Hill meeting in his book "Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s."

"While Malcolm is moderating from his earlier position, King is becoming more militant," Pitney says.

More:

"It was his critique of America from the bottom up that was so shocking," says Young. "He was a young man with a Ph.D mind, but he was put out of school. He educated himself in jail by reading the dictionary."

A true visionary:

"King was a political revolutionary. Malcolm was a cultural revolutionary," Cone says. "Malcolm changed how black people thought about themselves. Before Malcolm came along, we were all Negroes. After Malcolm, he helped us become black."

The article is pretty interesting, I'll throw it up "On My Mind," so you all don't have to dig through this. Malcolm X was a very fascinating figure.