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Henri Caesar aka Black Caesar (1791-1830)

Black Caesar was allegedly a 19th-century  Haitian  revolutionary and pirate. Efforts to find historical evidence of his existence have been unsuccessful. According to works of fiction, he was a participant in the  Haitian Revolution  under  Dutty Boukman  and  Toussaint Louverture  as well as active in piracy for nearly a 30-year period during the early 19th century. Henri Caesar was allegedly born to a slave family kept by a French plantation owner known as Arnaut. He worked as a houseboy on the estate and, as a young man, worked in the lumberyard. He was apparently mistreated by the supervisor and later killed the man during the  slave insurrection , torturing him with a  saw . Joining the rebel forces led by Dutty Boukman  and  Toussaint Louverture , he remained with the revolution until its independence from  France  in 1804, when he left to try his luck at sea. Based in  Port-de-Paix , he captured ...

Who Killed Malcolm X?

By Sandeep S. Atwal June 1, 2010 "I want you to watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man in his press, is going to identify me with "hate." He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol of "hatred"—and that will help him to escape facing the truth."  — The Autobiography of Malcolm X I think it's safe to say that had Sirhan Sirhan, Arthur Bremer or Mark David Chapman been granted parole in early 2010, it would have made the news. When they're routinely denied parole it usually makes the news. Yet Thomas Hagan (aka Talmadge Hayer), one of the convicted assassins of Malcolm X--the only one caught at the scene and the only one to confess--was granted parole between the span of the morning and evening news of April 27, 2010 to little attention. But then, even in 2010, the gap between the public perception and the historical reality of Malcolm X remains as immense as it was in 1965. H...