![]() ![]() Payne never finished the book, but after his death, his daughter Tamara - who’d done some of the research and fact-checking along the way - undertook the task as a tribute to her father. Whatever Malcolm’s reputation for unflinching truth telling, Haley was quite the yarn spinner and never above passing off fiction as fact. He wanted to basically fact check “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” dictated by Malcolm and turned into prose by Alec Haley. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Les Payne spent decades tracking down and interviewing friends, relatives and colleagues of Malcolm X. ![]() And since Spike Lee and Denzel’s bio-pic hagiography on the same subject is still worth watching, I thought I’d review it here. ![]() Yes, this is an interesting biography to finish off in the middle of a racist/treasonous coup attempt, but there you go. ![]()
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