{"id":16153,"date":"2012-08-13T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16153"},"modified":"2012-08-13T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:24:38","slug":"malcolm-x-actor-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16153","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Malcolm X\u2019 Actor Dies At 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>Albert Freeman Jr<\/strong>., the veteran actor who played <strong>Elijah Muhammad<\/strong> in <strong>Spike Lee\u2019s<\/strong> epic film, \u201c<em>Malcolm X,<\/em>\u201d has died. He was 78.<\/p>\n<p>Howard University confirmed his death Friday night, but details weren\u2019t immediately available. <strong>Freeman<\/strong> taught acting there for years and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater arts department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freeman<\/strong> earned an NAACP Image Award for playing <strong>Malcolm X\u2019s<\/strong> mentor in Lee\u2019s 1992 biography.<\/p>\n<p>He also received an Emmy nomination for his role as <strong>Malcolm X<\/strong> in the 1979 miniseries<em> \u201cRoots: The Next Generations.\u201d<\/em> He won a best-actor Daytime Emmy that year for his work as <strong>Capt. Ed Hall<\/strong> on the soap opera <em>\u201cOne Life to Live.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u00a0 \u2014 Albert Freeman Jr., the veteran actor who played Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee\u2019s epic film, \u201cMalcolm X,\u201d has died. He was 78. Howard University confirmed his death Friday night, but details weren\u2019t immediately available. Freeman taught acting there for years and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater arts department. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}