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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 28 July 2018

Unpublished parts of Malcolm X's autobiography auctioned off

NEW YORK (AP) — For for the handwritten
decades, scholars have revisions and comments by
wanted to get a closer look Malcolm X and Haley.
at unpublished sections of Their dialogue, in writing,
a towering 20th century reflects the human rights
book, "The Autobiography activism of the Muslim
of Malcolm X," including minister, who indicted
cut chapters that may white America for what he
have contained some of saw as criminal behavior
the most explosive thoughts against blacks.
of the African-American Opponents including the
firebrand assassinated in U.S. government accused
1965. Malcolm X of inciting
They may get their racism and violence. He
chance after an auction was assassinated in Harlem
on Thursday, when by three members of the
a manuscript of an Nation of Islam, a radical
unpublished chapter, titled religious movement, shortly
"The Negro," was sold by after he had broken away
Guernsey's auction house from the group.
for $7,000. The scribbled notes in the
"We are like the Western manuscript "are a very
deserts; tumbleweed, direct narrative that he's
rolling and tumbling crafting," said Young, citing
whichever way the white the image of racist cross-
wind blows," reads part In this 1963 file photo, Black Nationalist leader Malcolm X attends a rally at Lennox Avenue and burning that Malcolm X's
of the chapter. "And the 115th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. mother described to him
white man is like the cactus, Associated Press as a child. "And that's what
deeply rooted, with spines brings him into the world."
to keep us off." auction for an undisclosed following the death of the the draft that were cut Loose fragments of
The buyer was The New York sum. autobiography's co-author, before publication have Malcolm X's writing-in-the-
Public Library's Schomburg The existence of Alex Haley. been locked away from works suggest a question:
Center for Research in Black unpublished chapters of Some pages have been public view. Is it possible there are other
Culture, based in Harlem. the book has been known exhibited in a Detroit Schomburg Center director chapters that were written
The Schomburg Center since 1992, when an museum. An unpublished Kevin Young said after the but cut?
also acquired a 241-page entertainment attorney, introduction was read auction that the draft of the "I examined them, and
early draft of Malcolm Gregory Reed, bought aloud at an event in 2010. entire book is of immense I don't know what those
X's autobiography at the them at an estate auction But mostly the sections of value, beyond the historic, are," Young said. q

Cambodian, Indian among 2018 winners of Magsaysay awards

By JIM GOMEZ a Philippine president who into their families more than
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — died in a 1957 plane crash, 7,000 of them.
A Cambodian genocide are to be presented in Ma- Vatwani's "healing com-
survivor who helped docu- nila on Aug. 31. passion" affirmed "the hu-
ment the Khmer Rouge "All are unafraid to take man dignity of even the
atrocities and an Indian on large causes. All have most ostracized in our
psychiatrist who led the res- refused to give up despite midst," the foundation said.
cue of thousands of men- meager resources, daunt- Filipino businessman How-
tally ill street paupers to ing adversity and strong ard Dee turned to a range
treat and reunite them with opposition," Carmencita of civic work, including re-
their families are among the Abella, president of the sponding to widespread
six winners of this year's Ra- Ramon Magsaysay Award contingencies in the south-
mon Magsaysay Awards, Foundation, said of the win- Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation President Carmencita ern Philippines caused by
regarded as Asia's version ners. "Their approaches are Abella poses with pictures of this years' Ramon Magsaysay drought, famine and insur-
of the Nobel Prize. all deeply anchored on a awardees in Manila, Philippines, Thursday, July 26, 2018. gency-wrought violence.
The other recipients named respect for human dignity Associated Press He served as a government
Thursday are a Filipino and a faith in the power of negotiator in peace talks
who led peace talks with collective endeavor." a center that documented 57, is currently involved in with communist rebels in
communist insurgents, a Youk Chhang lost his father, the horrific violence in aid a project to develop a mu- the 1990s.
polio-stricken Vietnamese five of his siblings and near- of the Khmer Rouge war seum, archives, library and Contracting polio when
who fought discrimina- ly 60 of his relatives dur- crimes trials. a graduate program on she was 2 years old, Vo Thi
tion against the disabled, ing the genocidal Khmer The massive scope of his crimes against humanity. Hoang Yen helped found
an East Timorese who built Rouge rule in the late group's work included col- In India, where there are a non-profit group in 2005,
care centers for the poor 1970s and subsequent civil lecting more than a mil- an estimated 400,000 street which has helped about
amid civil strife and an In- war, but he escaped and lion documents, producing paupers with mental illness, 15,000 people with disabili-
dian who tutored village found his way to the United digital maps of more than psychiatrist Bharat Vatwani ties get jobs. A showcase
students to help them pass States as a refugee. He re- 23,000 mass graves and started a mission in 1988 project involved a motor-
exams. turned home after order excavating remains for fo- that by now has rescued, cycle taxi service designed
The awards, named after was restored and headed rensic examination. Youk, treated and reintegrated for the disabled.q