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A review by kdekoster
The Awakening of Malcolm X by Tiffany D. Jackson, Ilyasah Shabazz
5.0
If you're starting and it feels slow, keep going. When Malcolm reaches his awakening... holy smokes, I couldn't put it down. **This is a tiny spoiler: after they won their first debate and his teacher/prison superintendent Winslow tried to claim him as "one of their brightest stars," Malcolm's response sparked an awakening in me: "Sir, with all due respect, I was shaped long before I arrived here."
Malcolm's family, from the way his mother raised him to the way his siblings all moved to be near him in prison + so many more examples was truly remarkable.
The vaccine testing at Norfolk prison!
***Another spoiler: When Malcolm had himself sent back to Charlestown because he knew his brothers there were not free - what greater love is there?
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"The sight of a broken Chucky sends shock waves through Charlestown. He was kept in the hole the longest of any prisoner we know. A record fifteen months in solitary confinement. [...] Chucky spent less time overseas fighting in the war. I tell him he is a descendent of refined and industrious kings who lived under the sun and beside beautiful oceans, who wore clothes of silk and slippers of gold. I whisper to him, "You are one of God's favorite kings, brother. You are one of God's favorites.""
Malcolm's family, from the way his mother raised him to the way his siblings all moved to be near him in prison + so many more examples was truly remarkable.
The vaccine testing at Norfolk prison!
***Another spoiler: When Malcolm had himself sent back to Charlestown because he knew his brothers there were not free - what greater love is there?
------
"The sight of a broken Chucky sends shock waves through Charlestown. He was kept in the hole the longest of any prisoner we know. A record fifteen months in solitary confinement. [...] Chucky spent less time overseas fighting in the war. I tell him he is a descendent of refined and industrious kings who lived under the sun and beside beautiful oceans, who wore clothes of silk and slippers of gold. I whisper to him, "You are one of God's favorite kings, brother. You are one of God's favorites.""