J. Edar Hoover

More Questions than Answers: A Review of Netflix’s “Who Killed Malcolm X”

February 21, 2020

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*THIS POST INCLUDES SPOILERS* I hate myself for even typing this given the subject matter yet here we are. Today is the 55th anniversary of the assassination of el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz aka Malcolm X. This is no celebration. Let’s start by stating the obvious. Malcolm X was one of the…

Cool Like That: The Story of Aaron Dixon, Seattle’s Black Panther Party Leader

January 30, 2020

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*Updated from January 28, 2018 Black Like Vanilla IG post This is Aaron Dixon, founding member of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party, on the cover of the October 1968 edition of Seattle Magazine. The Seattle chapter was one of the first Black Panther chapters authorized outside of California and…