Malcolm X @ Brown University…

When I was doing research on Malcolm X’s 1961 speech at Brown University, I came across this video about the recently discovered “lost tape” of his talk. In the video above, the student who found the tape explains how Richard Holbrooke, then editor-in-chief of the Brown Daily Herald, helped bring Malcolm X to Brown (as a Brown alumna and Javanese gamelan player, I get a kick out of the gamelan music used in the video). In his speech at Brown, Malcolm emphasized the virtues of Islam and how it had saved his life. “We are taught, as Muslims,” he told the crowd, “never to be the aggressor, never to look for trouble, to always seek peace.”