By largely ignoring questions of “why” he was killed the new Netflix documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X?” largely ignores the important politics and ideas that made Malcolm X a symbol to this day of international revolutionary struggle. REFERENCED ITEMS: A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the Extreme Defining…
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Ilyasah Al-Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, was quoted recently as saying that, “It was when I was watching the second Obama inauguration that I started to really worry that my father was being written out of history…” Her comment speaks to the concern discussed in this presentation by Dr. Jared Ball, the branding of…
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A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm XWatch this video on YouTube Our recent book talk at the University of Maryland (2-18-15) Get a copy of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X from Black Classic Press! – More from Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs can be found at Drums In the Global…
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