Fifty-five years later, the case may be reopened. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] For more than half a century, scholars have maintained that prosecutors convicted the wrong men in the assassination of Malcolm X. Now, 55 years after that bloody afternoon in February 1965, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is reviewing whether to reinvestigate the murder. Some new […]
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The Explosive Chapter Left Out of Malcolm X’s Autobiography | History.com
Missy Sullivan, History.com Truman Moore/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images, Featured Image [dropcap]It’s[/dropcap] not often that a little-known chapter from one of the most important books of the 20th century emerges into the public sphere. Especially one in which a prominent civil-rights figure delivers a stern rebuke to his race. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In July 2018, the […]
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Malcolm X Day 2018 | New York Amsterdam News
“History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”— Malcolm X.
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Malcolm X Documentary Premieres at African-American Museum | The Washington Informer
”Malcolm X gave us so much in terms of the advancement of people of color, challenging us to see our value, our heritage and our obligation to each other…”
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Malcolm X’s alleged assassin hiding in plain sight in Newark 50 years after civil rights leader was killed, author claims | Daily News
“It’s an affront to justice and an affront to the legacy of Malcolm.”
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X: or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation | Theater Mania
Marcus Gardley imagines a trial to set the record straight on the controversial black leader.
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Do the right thing – how black cinema rose again
The late 80s and 90s heralded a breakthrough led by Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood. At first, Hollywood embraced this wave of talent, then it ignored it. Now, in the wake of #OscarsSoWhite, black films matter once more.
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‘Blood Brothers’: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
In “Blood Brothers,” Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith lift the curtain on the provocative history surrounding Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X’s complex bond.
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