malcolm xavier combs
-
NYC Student Wants to Put His Namesake Malcolm X’s Name on His Senior Sweater, but His School Thinks It’s Inappropriate
His name is Malcolm Xavier Combs. He was named for the iconic black activist Malcolm X. And yet when Malcolm wanted to put the moniker of his namesake (and thus a shortened form of his own name) on his senior sweater, school officials deemed it inappropriate. “I don’t understand it,” Mychelle Combs, Malcolm’s mother, told…