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Black Star News
March 23, 2018
The following is a speech by Malcolm X speech from 1965 about how the colonial misrepresentation of Africa created inferiority complexes and hatred towards Africa in the Diaspora African communities. He was assassinated on February 21, 1965. We regularly revisit speeches by our great ancestors.
Pepperdine University Graphic
March 13, 2018
Malcolm X is a man who fought for racial equality in America. He rose as a leader during an important time in American history, facing both opposition and admiration. Just as Black History Month came to a close, the opportunity arose for the public to hear Malcolm X's story through his own words.
Joplin Globe
March 12, 2018
Although the novel is a fictionalized account of her childhood, LLYASAH SHABAZZ, daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, and award-winning author RENEE WATSON based the story on real people, events and facts. Betty loves her family and is an attentive older sister to her three half-sisters, but sheÃâà...
MLive.com
March 11, 2018
"X: A Novel," is a fictionalized account of the early years of Malcolm X. Malcolm X was a young man with boundless potential but with the odds stacked against him. After losing his father under suspicious circumstances and his mother to a mental health hospital, Malcolm X fell into a life of petty crime andÃâà...
TeenVogue.com
March 11, 2018
Their conflict mirrors a duality often discussed in black history through figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Killmonger — whose values most resemble those that have become synonymous with Malcolm X's legacy — has a fictional story arc that is similar to Malcom's real life one. After hisÃâà...
Chicago Sun-Times
March 10, 2018
Organizers said about 1,000 people will attend the Indivisible Chicago Summit at Malcolm X College, 1900 W. Jackson Ave. The panels include a session on Millennials in Politics and another on turning out the vote. Even though the summit is taking place before the March 20 Illinois primary – and as earlyÃâà...
The Boston Globe
March 1, 2018
The Museum of African American History hosted a private screening of “The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X” the other night. The show, which airs on the Smithsonian Channel, tells the story of the civil rights activist through speeches, newscasts, and archival footage. The event at the museum on Joy Street includedÃâà...
Amsterdam News
March 1, 2018
Except for the late Percy Sutton, few attorneys in America have had the life of Malcolm X so intertwined in their career as Gregory Reed. Whether it's Malcolm's memorabilia, his autobiography or its missing chapters, Reed, a prominent Detroit lawyer and founder of Keeper of the Word Foundation,Ãâà...
MLive.com
February 27, 2018
SUMMIT TWP., MI - The daughter of deceased minister and human rights activist Malcolm X will speak at Jackson College in March. Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X's daughter and coauthor of "X: A Novel," will give the keynote address at a Michigan Humanities Council reading event at the college. The eventÃâà...
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
February 26, 2018
“Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land,” Yahya Abdul-Basser '20 said, reading from Malcolm X's “Letter from Hajj.” Joined by Cyrus McGoldrick, a Muslim human rightsÃâà...
The Philadelphia Tribune
February 24, 2018
“What we were trying to do was tell the story of Malcolm X in the late '50s and 1960s up until his assassination so that people know who he was, what he said, what he was about, how his views changed, what he means to America — because, if anything else, these things are like a mirror to ourselves, ourÃâà...
Smithsonian
February 23, 2018
The voice of Malcolm X is like a baritone saxophone—powerful, full, and deep with a gravely gravitas that demands your attention. What better instrument for a man whose forceful, fiery speeches transfixed the nation in the midst of the 1960s civil rights movement—and made tangible the anger andÃâà...
Amsterdam News
February 21, 2018
New Yorkers commemorated international-renowned activist-icon Malcolm X—El Hajj Malik El Shabazz—Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, the 53rd anniversary of his 1965 assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. Marchers gathered on the corner of Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard andÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 21, 2018
Described as one of the greatest African American leaders and hailed as the person who laid the foundations of the Black Power movement, Malcolm X would have been 93 today. The civil rights leader was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on Sunday, February 21, 1965, just threeÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
February 19, 2018
21, 1965: Rivals assassinated Malcolm X, an African-American nationalist and Muslim leader, as he began to address his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City's Washington Heights. He was 39. Feb. 22, 1898: Frazier Baker, an African American recently appointedÃâà...
