New Yorkers remembered Malcom X Monday on what would have been his 100th birthday. A pair of gatherings in Upper Manhattan revisited his inspirational words and his fight for Black empowerment. At the National Action Network,

Spike Lee is calling out a bad call from the Academy more than 30 years later: The auteur, along with most cinephiles, is convinced that Denzel Washington was snubbed for the Best Actor Oscar for “ Malcolm X .” Al Pacino instead won over Washington for “Scent of a Woman.”