In 1992, Lindo made his debut in a Spike Lee film, playing the character “West Indian Archie,” a no-nonsense numbers kingpin in Harlem who takes a young, pre-Nation of Islam, Malcolm X (then ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on November 18, 1992. This story was written by Robert Ebert.) Spike Lee’s ‘Malcolm X’ is one of the great screen biographies, celebrating … ...

Born Malcolm Little in Omaha on May 19, 1925, to a Baptist minister father and West Indian mother, both politically involved, he lived on the streets of various eastern U.S. cities until he was ...