Betty Shabazz, Malcolm’s wife, who was pregnant with twins, shouldered her way onto a bench with their four neatly groomed daughters. His split with the group had been public and ugly, and there were rumors that his old colleagues were plotting to have him killed.Īt the Audubon, four hundred people filed into the hall. This transformation was not appreciated among the ranks of the Nation. He travelled to Selma, Alabama, in solidarity with Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s push for voting rights there, and met with his wife, Coretta. He attended a secret meeting of civil-rights leaders at the home of the actor Sidney Poitier, where he proposed working together to bring American race relations to the United Nations. He had grown tired of being pigeonholed as a violent agitator, and had begun to forge connections with the nonviolent civil-rights movement, which he had previously spurned. But, over the past few years, he had come to see the group’s leader, Elijah Muhammad, as a charlatan, and had grown skeptical of his teachings-among them, that white people were all “blue-eyed devils.” In addition to the O.A.A.U., Malcolm had founded Muslim Mosque, Inc., a group that would allow his followers to explore more orthodox versions of Sunni Islam. Malcolm had been the national spokesman of the Nation of Islam, and had become famous as a fierce and eloquent advocate of Black Nationalism. “It was like an invisible weight sitting on my shoulder, on my back.”
“I felt something that was ominous in the air,” Benjamin 2X Goodman, one of Malcolm’s assistants, told me, years later. Despite the potential dangers, he had called off the body searches, which set his advisers on edge.
At most of Malcolm’s rallies, security guards frisked guests before they entered, but Malcolm worried that this would scare off the younger, better-educated, non-Muslim attendees that he hoped to attract to his new organization. He envisioned the event as an afternoon of rousing rhetoric for a diverse crowd: a reverend campaigning for school desegregation would give opening remarks. He was in Harlem to launch the Organization of Afro-American Unity, a new, secular group that he hoped would allow him to engage in mainstream civil-rights activism in a way that the Nation-which was both rigidly devout and expressly militant-had made difficult. He had recently left the Nation of Islam, the Black-Muslim group that had nurtured his rise to prominence. Malcolm was thirty-nine, tall and serious, with a dark suit and a new beard, and he was in the midst of remaking himself. on Sunday, February 21, 1965, Malcolm X arrived at the Audubon Ballroom, in Harlem, to give a speech. Q4 2017 was nearly equal to Q4 2016, with 315 million tickets sold, compared to 319 million.At 2 P.M. An unusually empty August accounted for half of summer 2017’s shortfall. Summer 2017 was 92 million admissions short of summer 2016. “A record Q1 (in box office and admissions) was offset by a disappointing summer, with a range of sequels that were not embraced by audiences in the numbers we are accustomed to.
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“2017 highlighted once again the importance of a balanced, 52 week movie calendar,” said NATO in its analysis. While that is only a rough estimate that does not account for the higher ticket prices for premium formats and theaters in more expensive cities like New York and Los Angeles, NATO’s estimate is the lowest since 1993, when “Jurassic Park” was the top grossing film of the year and an estimated 1.24 billion tickets were sold. The National Alliance of Theater Owners (NATO) announced Wednesday that the national ticket average for 2017 rose 3.7 percent year-over-year to $8.93, up from $8.65 last year.Īt that average, the estimated number of movie tickets sold last year is 1.23 billion.
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