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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 24 February 2018
'Lost Tapes' series examines Malcolm X through rare footage

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS rallies with Nation of Islam then shows images of Mal-
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) leader and eventually foe, colm X and speaks about
— Malcolm X was reviled Elijah Muhammad. his conversion to Islam after
and adored during his life- Like other pieces in "The spending time in prison.
time thanks to his views of Lost Tapes" series, which is Later in “The Lost Tapes,”
black nationalism and "by in its second season, the the documentary reveals
any means necessary" ap- documentary uses only that boxing champ Mu-
proach to battle racial dis- images and video clips hammad Ali ended his
crimination. Following his from the time period and friendship with Malcolm X
assassination, the civil rights doesn't insert contempo- in exchange for his name
advocate's popularity was rary voices or scholars to in- change granted by Elijah
revived by hip-hop artists terpret what the audience Muhammad — a coveted
in the late 1980s and early sees. Only sentences are reward by Nation of Islam
'90s and his image began added to images to give followers. The documenta-
appearing on clothing, background information. ry also has a radio interview
college dorm posters and Malcolm X, who later where Malcolm X discusses
eventually in a Spike Lee changed his name to El-Hajj attending the 1963 March
1992 biopic. Malik El-Shabazz following on Washington.
Now a Smithsonian Chan- his pilgrimage in Mecca, He is shown speaking at
nel documentary is exam- came to national promi- events in New York, Los An-
ining the life of Malcolm X nence in the late 1950s as In this Feb. 13, 1963 file photo, Nation of Islam leader Malcolm geles and Chicago.
X speaks to the press in New York as Muslims were picketing
through rare footage from the leader of the Nation of through the Times Square area. Ilyasah Shabazz, the civil
his speeches and media Islam's Temple Number 7 in Associated Press rights leader’s third daugh-
interviews to let the slain Harlem, New York. ter, said the documentary
leader speak to a new He often was critical of Producer Tom Jennings put from a July 1959 television puts her father in the con-
generation using his own civil rights leaders, like Rev. together the project with documentary called “The text of his time and shows
words. "The Lost Tapes: Martin Luther King, Jr., for the idea of making viewers Hate That Hate Produced” him reacting to the injus-
Malcolm X," scheduled practicing nonviolent resis- feel they had been trans- which introduced Malcolm tices he saw. Then, the
to premiere at 8 p.m. EST tance to segregation and ported through a time ma- X and the Chicago-based documentary came to
Monday, follows the advo- called them "traitors" and chine to see events unfold Nation of Islam to a wider the assassination where ra-
cate's changing philoso- "chumps." But he later broke as they happened. audience. “They have their dio reporters and images
phy from a Nation of Islam with Elijah Muhammad "The audience is waiting own parochial schools,” of the event recreate the
black separatist to a figure over disagreements about for the narrator to show up famed journalist Mike Wal- chaos and sadness. “The
seeking to build multiethnic speaking out on police and save them," Jennings lace reports at the time on ending of the documen-
coalitions during the tumul- violence, President John said. "But the footage tells a documentary that aired tary ... I was reduced to
tuous 1960s civil rights era. F. Kennedy's assassination the story alone. This forum is on WNTA-TV in New York, smithereens,” Shabazz said.
But it also contains never- and news that Muhammad very rewarding." “where Muslim children “To see my father, a young
before-seen footage of the had fathered children from For example, “The Lost are told to hate the white man ...for me, it was very
outspoken advocate at teen followers. Tapes” shows footage man.” A young Wallace dynamic.”q

The language of 'Black

Panther'? It's real. Give it a try.

By CARA ANNA, Kani plays the father of the "I'm not so impressed, but
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — king T'Challa, played by they tried," said South Af-
Much of what is seen in Chadwick Boseman. rican reality TV star Blue
"Black Panther" is fiction- Now, in the wake of "Black Mbombo with a good-na-
al, including the country Panther," the language is tured smile.
where the movie is based. having a moment. Even Somikazi Deyi, a lecturer
But in Wakanda, they do the foundation of Nobel at the University of Cape
speak a language that is Peace Prize-winner and Town's School of Languag- In this Jan. 29, 2018 file photo, Chadwick Boseman, a cast
member in "Black Panther," poses at the premiere of the film at
very much real, with dis- anti-apartheid activist es & Literature, said of isiX- The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
tinctive click sounds that Desmond Tutu, who rarely hosa: "It's a wonderful lan- Associated Press
had some cast members makes public statements guage." Deyi also dismissed
struggling to speak it. these days at the age of any assertion that the clicks the "Q'' sound, pop the tip part of isiXhosa, which is
"The clicks are no joke," 86, pointed out this week of the language were hard of your tongue off the roof spoken by almost everyone
Oscar-winning actress Lu- on Twitter: "Archbishop to grasp. of your mouth. in Eastern Cape province
pita Nyong'o said recently, Tutu comes from a #Xhosa "They're kind of easy," she The tricky part, perhaps, and whose famous speak-
calling isiXhosa "one of the background as well." said. is incorporating them into ers include South Africa's
hardest languages on the Some South Africans at the She walked The Associated words at normal speed. first black president, Nelson
planet." film's Johannesburg pre- Press through it. For the "X'' Those "click" sounds that are Mandela.
The idea to use isiXhosa, miere said it was humbling sound, push your tongue unusual to many outside IsiXhosa carries a person's
one of South Africa's 11 to hear isiXhosa spoken in a against the side of your South Africa are a combi- emotional identity, a sense
official languages, in the major Hollywood film, even mouth and click as if calling nation of the Khoi and San of kinship, Deyi said.
blockbuster came from if they found the accents a horse. For the "C'' sound, languages of the region's "You own it. You're in con-
South African actor and of some actors a little eye- do the same but against original inhabitants, Deyi trol. There's some spirituality
cast member John Kani. brow-raising. your front teeth. And for said. Now they're a key to it."q