The Malcolm X Story Retold: In Search of the Blessed Community

This small book is a poetic retelling of the Malcolm X story, in which his life is reframed as a spiritual quest. The book provides a contrast to almost fifty years of writings that focus primarily on unraveling the complexities of his political beliefs and sorting out the details of his intense life and his tragic death by assassination. While these are of obvious importance, Malcolm’s life is also a story of the universal human search for a place to call home. It is wrought, however, from...