Sometimes, I like EBONY. Sometimes, I don't like EBONY.
The Nation's premier black magazine has been a hit-or-miss for the last 15 years. Given the rise of the Internet and the decline of black intellectualism, EBONY magazine is not the must-have coffee table item that it used to be. (All of this is my opinion)
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This month's issue is a prime example of that.
I bought it because of the visually stunning cover that you see--which is actually one of 3 covers offered this month. The other 2 covers feature Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles-Carter (looking presentable), and Boris and Nicole Kodjoe (looking sexually ignorant, forgetting that Ebony is not Maxim)
46 YEARS AFTER MALCOLM X
But what saves the magazine is an excellent article by Kevin Chappell. "The Battle For Malcolm X" is a positive expose on the civil rights leader whom so many claim to know about, but really don't--according to his daughters, Malaak, Ilyasah, and Gamilah Shabazz. The three sisters set the record straight about who REALLY influenced their father and how the Nation of Islam was more of a debtor than a lender to their father's legacy:
"Our father took the baton from his father, not the Nation of Islam...He helped make the Nation of Islam more powerful and prominent and get more members, because he really believed in the organization."- Malaak Shabazz, pg. 111
The sisters also talk about how the 1992 Spike Lee film, Malcolm X, gives people the wrong impression about their father's coming of age.
If I can spare the four bucks, you can too. (In compliance with new laws, I was not asked to do this review by Johnson Publishing. I did this on my own)
The Nation's premier black magazine has been a hit-or-miss for the last 15 years. Given the rise of the Internet and the decline of black intellectualism, EBONY magazine is not the must-have coffee table item that it used to be. (All of this is my opinion)
I bought it because of the visually stunning cover that you see--which is actually one of 3 covers offered this month. The other 2 covers feature Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles-Carter (looking presentable), and Boris and Nicole Kodjoe (looking sexually ignorant, forgetting that Ebony is not Maxim)
46 YEARS AFTER MALCOLM X
But what saves the magazine is an excellent article by Kevin Chappell. "The Battle For Malcolm X" is a positive expose on the civil rights leader whom so many claim to know about, but really don't--according to his daughters, Malaak, Ilyasah, and Gamilah Shabazz. The three sisters set the record straight about who REALLY influenced their father and how the Nation of Islam was more of a debtor than a lender to their father's legacy:
"Our father took the baton from his father, not the Nation of Islam...He helped make the Nation of Islam more powerful and prominent and get more members, because he really believed in the organization."- Malaak Shabazz, pg. 111
The sisters also talk about how the 1992 Spike Lee film, Malcolm X, gives people the wrong impression about their father's coming of age.
If I can spare the four bucks, you can too. (In compliance with new laws, I was not asked to do this review by Johnson Publishing. I did this on my own)