{"id":14629,"date":"2015-09-29T23:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T04:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2018-01-26T01:59:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:59:34","slug":"why-black-people-read-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=14629","title":{"rendered":"Why Black People Read Out Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14630\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14630\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/readingmalcolm.jpg\" alt=\"The Syracuse University event for the 4th Annual Community Read-Out was held at Bird Library. The event was organized by Professor Joan Bryant (far left).\" width=\"656\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/readingmalcolm.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/readingmalcolm-300x108.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Syracuse University event for the 4th Annual Community Read-Out (Black &amp; Banned) was held at Bird Library. The event was organized by Professor Dr. Joan Bryant (far left).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We wonder what would have surprised Malcolm X (aka El-Hajj Malik al-Shabazz) more,\u00a0 the fact that his autobiography was banned and called a &#8220;crime manual&#8221; in Jacksonville FL, or that 50 years later a marathon community reading\u00a0about his life would be held at Syracuse University (SU).\u00a0For the next two days additional readings of <em>The Autobiography of Malcolm X<\/em> (as told to Alex Haley) will be held at Onondaga Community College and Beauchamp Public Library.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Autobiography<\/em> was a great choice for Banned Books week on many levels, but most important, Malcolm X&#8217;s story speaks to the heart of the American experience. \u00a0For\u00a0further exploration of his legacy, we also recommend this book by Rondell Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, one year before the book was published, Malcolm was interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.syr.edu\/alfred-balk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writer Al Balk<\/a>, who later became a professor at SU&#8217;s Newhouse School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wonder what would have surprised Malcolm X (aka El-Hajj Malik al-Shabazz) more,\u00a0 the fact that his autobiography was banned and called a &#8220;crime manual&#8221; in Jacksonville FL, or that 50 years later a marathon community reading\u00a0about his life would be held at Syracuse University (SU).\u00a0For the next two days additional readings of The Autobiography [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[4229,1355,2958,4750,4751,51,4752,3383,4749,4748,1449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24605,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions\/24605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}