Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
They may be a bit biased, but according to this PBS poll, most people thought Malcolm X was a better Civil Rights leader than Martin Luther King, Jr. So then why don't we have a Malcolm X day? (Source.)
So that thing about the KKK visiting Malcolm's pregnant mom? Never happened. (Source.)
Spike Lee's Malcolm X was the first non-documentary movie to be filmed in Mecca, but they had to shoot without him. Mecca is for Muslims only! (Source.)
We told you he was well read. Malcolm X's famous phrase "By any means necessary" derives from Machiavelli. (Source.)
As it turn out, the autobiography wasn’t exactly accurate… at least according to this new Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. (Source.)