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Malcolm X’s mythic quality is what was going through my mind as I sat in the dark, packed McCaw Hall last weekend, watching his life play out onstage in the opera, X: The Life & Times of Malcolm X. Particularly just before intermission when Malcolm is serving time in prison for dealing dope and is visited by Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam. As the promise of a movement greater than him beckons, Malcolm (played by bass Kenneth Kellogg) looks out into his future — the audience — and you can almost see destiny form before his eyes. It’s a powerful moment.

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JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING, Washington, D.C. – With two and half decades of service in the United
States Air Force, Chief Master Sgt. Clifford Lawrence Lawton, the senior enlisted leader of Joint Base
Anacostia-Bolling and the command chief of the 11th Wing, reflects on his remarkably unique
experiences growing up in the small town of Elloree, South Carolina. From the invaluable lifelong
guidance his family poured into him and the examples they set, to his own personal experience laboring
in the Southern farm fields as a youth, his experience has indeed set him up for success in the military
and beyond.

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