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...Malcolm X saves a minister and his wife by ramming a sandwich cart into a group of white soldiers. So begins Kevin Baker’s last masterful installment of his “City of Fire” trilogy, “Strivers...
While jazz emanates from every corner of the city, the two protagonists of the story—Jonah Dove, resident of Striver’s Row and minister of the Church of New Jerusalem, and the young Malcolm X (then Malcolm Little)—are engaged in a fateful dance of despair and isolation that is resolved climactically amidst a chaotic race riot...
...presence of Malcolm X in the novel surprisingly does not overshadow the other characters. The depiction of Malcolm Little—called “Red” by the dodgy crowd into which he predictably falls prey—as a young boy in Harlem is, at first, somewhat generic. He is the archetypal young arrival to the city that “wanted to see everything, to find whatever there was to find,” but manages only to find crime and a drug-induced stupor...
After a while, the two-dimensional acting will completely and utterly bore you. There is barely a palpable plot – two gay men in New York City, Adam (Chester) and Steve (Malcolm Gets) must overcome an animalistic sexual attraction to find true love – and nary a trace of dinginess ever creeps into the East Village setting...
...black women. That same year, the Academy also rewarded Denzel Washington for his portrayal of—surprise!—a criminal. It’s widely agreed that this wasn’t Washington’s best role—did anyone see “Malcolm X?" “The Hurricane,” perhaps? Yet, as usual, the Academy singled out the stereotype...