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<\/a><\/p>\nSpike Lee\u2019s Malcolm X biopic is arguably the greatest film by this great American director who is also notable for the eyeglasses he sports. Lee always wears distinctive, and distinctively different frames, such as this full-rim plastic ombre (two-toned) pair, not unlike this Zenni frame, 286315,<\/p>\n
\u2026and this full-rim plastic tortoiseshell pair, similar to Zenni\u2019s frame 230925.<\/p>\n Sticking with Malcolm X for a minute, not everyone knows that The Autobiography of Malcolm X was a collaboration between Malcolm X and Alex Haley, who went on to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning Roots, a monumental saga of slavery in the U.S. Because of this book and the miniseries that followed, Haley became a celebrated figure. He was always seen in a pair of wireframe aviator bifocals, similar to Zenni\u2019s frame 418912.<\/p>\n A more recent biography of Malcolm X, the great American scholar Manning Marable\u2019s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, also won a Pulitzer Prize, which was awarded posthumously, since Marable passed away before the book\u2019s publication. He favored classic round wireframe glasses, like Zenni\u2019s frame 730015.<\/p>\n Staying on the Pulitzer Prize tip, poet Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, in 1950, for her second book of poetry, Annie Allen. One of her most celebrated lines comes from her poem, \u201cDo not be afraid of no\u201d: \u201cIt is brave to be involved, \/ To be not fearful to be unresolved.\u201d Check her out in her glasses, very similar to Zenni\u2019s 639512.<\/p>\n Since we\u2019re looking at African American Pulitzer Prize winners, one of the most famous is the great novelist, poet, essayist, and activist Alice Walker, whose novel The Color Purple has had renewed life as a movie and Broadway musical. Walker always rocks her glasses, whether they\u2019re rimless or wireframe, like Zenni\u2019s frame 658021.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n