Malcolm: The Boston years
How life in the Hub shaped a historical icon
Kenneth J. Cooper
After a long trip from Michigan, the red-haired teenager stepped down from the Greyhound bus, starting his walk into history with those first steps at the terminal at Park Square in Boston.
The dozen years he spent living in Massachusetts prepared Malcolm Little to become Malcolm X, the black Muslim feared in his own time but so respected in death that an Ivy League college, Columbia University, established a research center to study his life.
It was here in Boston that he went from being a partying teenager who couldn’t keep a job to a street hustler who got busted and imprisoned as inmate number 22843. Behind the bars of Massachusetts prisons, he educated and remade himself into a disciplined, religious man with the backbone to stand up for his people. Full story
In Conn., prep school dream nearing reality
Colin Poitras
HARTFORD, Conn. — From the basement of the Hartford YWCA on the corner of Broad Street and Farmington Avenue, Patrick R. Moore has a vision.
Where others may see empty storage space, a darkened gym and a jumble of discarded office furniture, Moore sees classrooms and the smiling faces of 60 young boys neatly clad in ironed white shirts, dark pants and ties.
Thanks to a few generous donations, a little help from friends and a lot of hard work, Moore’s vision will come true in four months when his new Covenant Preparatory School opens on Aug. 28. Full story
 Nubia museum head links Boston, Egypt
Kenneth J. Cooper
ASWAN, Egypt — The Nubia Museum sits on a hill just up from the floating line of cruise ships moored on the Nile River.
Inside the museum’s yellow sandstone walls works an enthusiastic man with a Boston connection, some 6,000 miles away from this southern Egyptian city. His name is Ossama Abdel Meguid, the founding director of the world’s only museum devoted solely to Nubia.
Scholars now agree that this region — divided between modern Egypt and Sudan — was the homeland of several pharaohs in a late dynasty of ancient Egypt. Some Afrocentric theorists further argue that Nubia provided the foundation of the revered civilization that erected the pyramids, temples and monuments still standing in the Nile Valley. Full story
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