zaheer, you mentioned 1959. that's a very important year because that's the year, march of 1959 is when punitively he, malcolm x, wrote a letter to elijah mohamed about troubles he was having in his marital relationship with betty. what malcolm said in that letter and, of course, that letter has to be challenged because it's only one reference that manning gives to that letter, and it's coming from that gary senate. the same man who claimed to have had the original letter and be put it up on ebay for, i think, $125,000. it was the same man who supposedly had the letters of adolf hitler, original letters from hitler that turned out to be a fraud. so we have to question then, you know, the reality of that letter, the authenticity of that letter because it stimulates this whole discussion about the so-called infidelities. the other concern about the homosexuality comes from a man named malcolm jarvis that who was fingered by malcolm as part of his burglary crew and went to prison. so you understand here's a man who

you can catch up with our pan panelists there, herb boyd, peniel joseph zaheer ali and my sister and your sister, sonia sanchez. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] exiles." [applause] >> well, thank you all so much for coming today. um, you know when i had the pleasure to be invited for this and saw the program, of course, i immediately started looking at the program to see who else was speaking at the same time as me. and i discovered that there are no fewer than two pulitzer prize winners, a major hollywood actress, and so, you know i know my topic is losers, but, you know -- [laughter] however, i take some pleasure, however, in speaking to you between two pulitzer prize winners. so you should, you should certainly stay on for more in this tent. but most of all, thank you to the library of congress and to the organizers of this wonderful festival. i mean, how great is this to walk along here and see all this? [applause] >> thomas brown would always remember the day the american revolution changed his life. it was the summer of 1775 the 25-year-old ice first on his own