Alex Haley May Have Faked MLK Quotes About Malcolm X - 50 Cent and Tyler Perry Among Black Celebs Ready To Buy BET | S7E12
In this week’s episode, our Black Box Letter has us asking what should a married man do after almost 20 years of marriage, and he’s no longer as sexual excitable as he once was. Should his spouse feel some sort of way about his “lack of desire”? Also, the famed journalist and author Alex Haley may have concocted the generations old rift between civil rights leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. How does this information change your perception of his work, and of the movement? And lastly, 50 Cent, Tyler Perry, and even Shaquille O’Neil are a few of the names of Black celebrities that have shown interest in buying B.E.T. Will getting the network back in the hands of Black ownership change the perception of what B.E.T. is? All that and much move.
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Notorious Black historian Alex Haley faked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s harsh criticism of Malcolm X, playing up their infamous rivalry, a biographer has found.
In fact, Jonathan Eig found that King respected X’s sentiments—far different from previous beliefs that King felt X was “fiery” and “demagogic.”
“We’ve been teaching people for decades, for generations, that King had this harsh criticism of Malcolm X,” Eig told The Washington Post, “and it’s just not true.”
While researching King at Duke University for an upcoming biography, Eig found an unedited transcript of the interview between the civil rights leader and Haley, according to The Post.
In the 1965 interview for Playboy magazine, Haley, who later interviewed X as the ghostwriter for his autobiography The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, asked King how he felt about X’s fight for civil rights and criticism of nonviolence.
There is a race to take control of BET.
In the latest update, it’s rumored that 50 Cent, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kenya Barris are interested in purchasing stakes in the company.
According to TMZ, sources closely involved in the matter mentioned 50 Cent and Barris were seen at Paramount’s headquarters in New York City to discuss the potential sale.
As of this writing, it is unclear whether their offer will be accepted. However, a source noted, “It’s not a done deal, but they’re deep in it.”
50 Cent also wrote, “Let’s play let’s make a deal,” on Instagram.
The group’s interest follows news that Tyler Perry, another media mogul, had confirmed he was looking to acquire as much stake as possible in BET.
“Rumor? No, it’s not a rumor,” Perry told Entertainment Tonight. “I’ve been there for four years now and have tremendous success. I wasn’t expecting this to happen, so, yes — if that is possible, I’m very, very interested in taking as much of it as I can.”