In one of the most important interviews for this time period, Paul Lee and Peter Goldman, two of the foremost historians around the Life, Times, Death and Legacy of Malcolm X appear in an interview with Kalonji Jama Changa LIVE on #RiotStarterTV! Paul Lee In 1990, the Highland Park, Mich., native served as a historical researcher and consultant for two episodes featuring Malcolm X in "Eyes on the Prize II," the PBS history of the modern civil-rights movement. In 1991, he was the chief historical consultant for Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" biopic, starring Denzel Washington. In 1994, he was the special research consultant for "Malcolm X: Make It Plain," an episode of the PBS historical series "The American Experience": Peter Goldman Goldman’s biography, The Death and Life of Malcolm X is considered a seminal work in the field. It focused heavily on Malcolm’s last years and on his assassination in 1965, and it remains a standard more than four decades after it was first published in 1973. A second edition, published by the University of Illinois Press in 1979, and a third, in 2013, include important new information on who committed the murder and why. Peter Goldman served 25 years on staff and 20 more as a contributing editor at Newsweek. During his career, Goldman wrote more than 120 cover stories and helped Newsweek win many honors, including six National Magazine Awards--the industry’s nearest equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize.
