By Les Payne and Tamara Payne 640 pages; Liveright $35.00 I had entered Bushnell Hall as a Negro with a capital N and I wandered out in the parking lot as a black man, late African American journalist Les Payne wrote in his 2002 essay The Night I Stopped Being A Negro. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsday investigative reporter was one of 60 African American students present when Malcolm X spoke to the University of Connecticut in June 1963.
This story and many others is described in the latest biography on the Black icon,
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
After Payne s death from a heart attack on March 19, 2018, at 76, his daughter and principal researcher Tamara finished her dad s labor of love. Thirty years in the making and deeply sourced, the biography adds to our understanding of one of the 20th century s more consequential leaders.
Annual Civic Club pancake breakfasts return with a ‘Covid edition’ flip: Valley Views Joan Rusek, cleveland.com
CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio – Pancake breakfast fundraisers are so ingrained as a long-standing tradition in the Chagrin Valley that it seemed as if the dish ran away with the spoon last year when Covid-19 concerns abruptly cancelled the third breakfast and all remaining fundraisers for the Civic Club including the summer ox roast and fall Taste in Bainbridge event. The 69-year breakfast tradition returns this year for two dates: 8 a.m. to noon Sundays, March 7 and 14 at Kenston High School in Bainbridge Township. There will, however, be a few changes due to the pandemic.
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