X is the Best Letter in the Alphabet
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/magazine/letter-x.html
X is the Best Letter in the Alphabet
It’s now used to indicate sex and gender beyond the binary. But X has always been powerful.
Credit.Illustration by Hayley Wall
June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
As a bookish child, I loved most of all an anthology of stories that sat high on my parents’ white bookshelves. At night, my siblings and I would gather on my littlest sister’s bed while one of my parents read to us. Once I learned to read, I took to raising myself up on my tiptoes to borrow that book and carrying it to the nubbly lime green couch in the playroom.
Malcolm X in 1964 Photo by Marion S. Trikosko/Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The People’s Organization for Progress (P.O.P.) observed the 96th birthday of civil rights icon Malcolm X with a virtual roundtable discussion.
The panel, which took place on May 20, featured Seton Hall Professors Kelly Harris and Todd Burroughs, P.O.P. vice chair Larry Adams, press officer Zayid Muhammad and chair Lawrence Hamm. Harris has a featured essay in the anthology “Malcolm X-Real, Not Invented,” which challenged the accuracy of the late Manning Marable’s “Malcolm X-A Life Of Reinvention.” Burroughs coedited an anthology also challenging the Marable book “The Lie Of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Reinvention.”