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Muhammad Aziz spent two decades in prison after being wrongly blamed for the crime.

Muhammad A. Aziz filed the $40 million claim on Thursday, seeking redress for a conviction that overshadowed 55 years of his life.

The US Department of Justice has opened a probe into the use of excessive force and racially discriminatory policing by the Louisiana State Police.

Panthers wanted to hurt white people. at the beginning, you two were already working together. >> malcolm x went through that evolution, a period of being a black nationalist. and after traveling, not just around the world but in parts of america, he began to realize that this struggle was not just about black people. that this struggle was for the rights of all people. >> that was an enduring solidarity that i felt with members of the panther better and era. its a sense of duty, a sense of hono...

Real way to have them be heard is to be holding the reins of power. >> $2.4 million. great box office for a wednesday. that is what opening crowds paid out to see malcolm x. >> it is hard to miss the phenomenon called spike lee. >> spike lee is a black man who has reached the top of white culture. and, he has done it his way. >> malcolm x is really impressive achievement in terms of not being one of these small independent emergent new voices connected to hip hop. but instead, a big budget three...

The idea, what if we find somebody that looks good and well give him the answers. >> yes, i know his name. hallic. jon h.w. hallic. >> you are our new champion for $20,000! >> and that cruelty was something i wanted to show. the power of money and personality. so to me, that was a story that really had to be told. >> we didnt land on plymouth rock. plymouth rock landed on us, landed right on top of us. >> "malcolm x" is spike lees epic. it really felt like the film that he was made to make. and ...

America was truly an american citizen, we wouldnt have a racial problem. if the emancipation proclamation was authentic, we wouldnt have a race problem. >> watching a guy like denzel as malcolm x, top of the game, intimidating in many ways. >> mr. becket, come in. >> when we made "philadelphia," he was malcolm x already. that was like starting a movie with marlon brando and having just seen "the godfather" the night before. >> i have aids. >> oh. oh, im sorry. >> "philadelphia" was an important ...

NEW YORK (AP) — On the eve of Juneteenth, the Tribeca Festival came to a close with the...

Harriet tubbman. martin king. malcolm x. rosa park. each one of those. and then to lose that childs life where the people come out with the black lives matter. all these things give us a little push. but we havent arrived yet. and so i keep telling people that its left up to us that each one of us should be responsible for another of us. it is in the bible. we are brothers keeper. and so, i tell you that if we, if people can be taught to hate they can be taught to love. i give this advice.

Happens, and weve seen it in some cases like in the case of castile, a black person with a gun whether its legal or not, can be seen as threatening. talk about this difference. talk about the difference of perception for black people to buy guns in self-defense or white people who say the by ar-15s for that some same reason. they say they buy it for self-defense but i think they are defending themselves from different things. >> yes, absolutely. this is even in the application of the segment and...