In the last and eighth episode, it's Lou who drops the ball, and in the business of life, he neglects Kenyatta over in Harlem, whose health has gone into decline. After making an unconventional visit to Kenyatta, and despite his evident declin

Part VII: Where It Ended Up

Apr 23rd, 2021 21m 24s

In the seventh episode, young Charles faces the ongoing racist abuses of prison authorities and then "escapes" as a parolee to the military, where he finds an even more outrageous experience of racism. Struggling against a system where even bl

Part V: Black Hunger and Other Pains

Apr 23rd, 2021 25m 20s

In the fifth episode, Kenyatta shifts from being a "bombastic, machete-waving extremist to a streetwise community leader" with connections to people in high places. Allied with Barry Gotteherer, "the mayor's man" among other people, Kenyatta co

Part IV: The Rabble Rouser Index

Apr 23rd, 2021 21m 26s

In the fourth episode, we learn how Kenyatta had become a major annoyance to the New York Office of the FBI, which saw him as a provocative and disturbing public figure in the later 1960s. With Malcolm gone, Kenyatta turns to supporting Adam Cl

Part VI: Shortcomings and Other Glorious Moments

Apr 23rd, 2021 26m 3s

In the sixth episode we continue to follow young Charles Morris's dreadful experiences in the flourishing racist prison system in North Carolina of the late 1930s. Fast forwarding the story, we see Kenyatta's emerging role as a community reform

Part III: Kenyatta of Harlem

Apr 23rd, 2021 22m 46s

In the third episode, Lou talks about becoming closer to Kenyatta, who begins to share his story, beginning with a childhood traumatized by racism and violence in the South, and its ramifications in later life. Lou also discusses Kenyatta's f

Introduction: The Watchman of Harlem

Apr 23rd, 2021 7m 40s

In this introduction, Lou recalls briefly how he began his passionate study of Malcolm X, and how this path led him to Charles Kenyatta in Harlem, the aged follower and associate of Malcolm, who was known as "37X" in his Nation of Islam days--a

Part II: Without An Anchor

Apr 23rd, 2021 18m 15s

In the second episode, Lou recalls how he and Kenyatta began their association, in a somewhat uneasy fashion, since Kenyatta wanted him to become his writer. As it turned out, Kenyatta had a history of using writers to advance his message in H

Part I: On the Walk to Death

Apr 23rd, 2021 29m 9s

In the first episode, Lou reflects upon his first interview with Kenyatta, looking back at the difficult days of 1964-65, when Malcolm X was ousted from the Nation of Islam. Malcolm finds himself in conflict with his former brethren over posses

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