I came across this story from NPR about a lost Malcolm X speech, which has recently been uncovered 50 years after it was given at Brown University. I think it is a reminder of our capacity to think rebelliously while pursuing an education at an Ivy League institution.

Kieran, could you begin by dealing with the mispelling in the topic name? You can do that by pressing the "Move" button top right, and then moving the topic to one that doesn't misspell the title. Then you could edit it the page and change its parent topic from SanjayMurtiIntro, which has nothing to do with it, to whatever topic you think it relevantly connects to. If there isn't one, parent it to WebHome, please.

These matters aside, the next useful revision would be to give the reader you are trying to interest the gist of the idea(s) you found in the speech, and something a little more specific by way of the idea those ideas generated in you.

-- KieranCoe - 05 Feb 2012

I'm sorry for the egregious errors. I obviously require more practice with this medium. More edits to this page will be coming soon.

-- KieranCoe - 07 Feb 2012

Neat article, but I could use some help to see more ways Malcolm X’s lecture at Brown ties into the themes of the class or our law school experience. However, on one level, it did remind me that while law school is not perfect is many ways in relation to the curriculum and such, it does present a great opportunity to attend talks on a lot of fascinating topics. My small liberal arts college certainly didn't offer this. Granted a non pizza lunch may have been advertised, but it's so refreshing to hear people speak with passion on whatever. Ultimately, I want to listen to what anyone with a bold voice says. I feel deprived of this experience sometimes because it's hard to get passion conveyed from lectures on a casebook. Anyway, it was interesting to read that after his lecture “Malcolm X invited students to come talk to him in the student lounge. "At that point, he conducted an interview with these young white students," [the student] continues. "He was willing to greet them more intimately and in private, and obviously he was seeking publicity. He wanted to be as well-known as possible, but I don't know — it definitely is a gesture to make towards young white students, who, by all accounts, he wouldn't really want to have anything to do with, but he was willing to greet them and talk to them in private." Thanks for sharing.

-- LizzieGomez - 07 Feb 2012