1. Don't you agree that Malcolm X definitely has a place in the pantheon of black civil rights heroes?

2. Spike's Malcolm X biopic is due for release on November 20.

3. He's more violent than Malcolm X.

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4. With his portrayal of Malcolm X in the 1992 biopic of the Civil Rights leader, he proved that he could be as full of righteous fire as any of Martin Luther King's colleagues.

5. Elijah Muhammad "silenced" Malcolm X. Officially, the punishment was supposed to last just three months, but there seemed no chance of resolution.

6. This was much the same message that Malcolm X had begun to preach a decade earlier, but now it had been accepted as the truth.

7. Malcolm X was an American Black Muslim minister and a spokesman for the Nation of Islam.

8. One week later, Malcolm X was assassinated, having been shot in the chest by a sawed-off shotgun and 16 times with handguns .

9. And I think Malcolm X probably captured that better than anybody.

10. On Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address a rally in New York City; he was 39.

11. Recently, he completed his rigorous and evenhanded biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" (Viking; $30), but, in an echo of his subject's fate, he died on the eve of publication.

12. The New York Times columnist celebrates Malcolm X, Andrei Sakharov and Menachem Begin as dissenters of Joban stature.

13. And all good men like Malcolm X and Bobby Hutton died for nothin.

14. I got riled up by "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Chomsky Reader"; Heidi read aloud passages from "The Anxiety of Influence.

15. Inmovies he's been an angel, an inspirational teacher and the BlackMuslim icon Malcolm X. He's played soldiers, policemen, coaches, doctors.

16. For nearly twenty years, Manning Marable, a historian at Columbia, labored on what he hoped would be a definitive scholarly work on Malcolm X.

17. One of the best known Black Muslim ministers during this period was Malcolm X, converted while he was in prison in 1947, who broke with the movement in March 1964 and was assassinated 11 months later.

18. He has even had the temerity to invoke the names of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X in defence of his actions.

19. A vivid but secondary figure in his own time, Malcolm X had achieved the status of an icon.

20. Pioneering figures in the civil rights movement also make their appearance, including the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Malcolm X.

21. London (CNN) -- Rousing speeches by gifted orators such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were crucial to the struggle for civil rights in America.

22. The Nation of Islam and its most famous adherent, Malcolm X, preached a message of self-reliance and racial separatism.

23. These include W. E. B. Du Bois Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the boxing world champion Muhammad Ali.

24. Spike Lee, celebrated director of race-issue dramas such as Do The Right Thing and Malcolm X, has surprised everyone with his latest film.