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Still alive, took part in the murders. We will speak to edward duboise, the former state president of the naacp in georgia. Then we remember malcolm x. The history of unpunished violence against our people clearly indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent mob. 50 years ago on february 21 1965, malcolm x was assassinated in the audobon ballroom in harlem. Today, we will hear malcolm in his own words and ...

Remember malcolm x. The history of unpunished violence against our people clearly indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent mob. 50 years ago on february 21 1965, malcolm x was assassinated in the audobon ballroom in harlem. Today, we will hear malcolm in his own words and speak to herb boyd who just published , malcolms diary from 1946. 1964. Then we will look at how the nsa and gchq hacked into the la...

Courted and fell in love with a woman and married a second time. He wrote thousands of passionate love letters to each of these women. This was a real living breathing human being and i dont think we have seen that about woodrow wilson. Next Diane Mcwhorter on her look carry me home birmingham, alabama the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution. She focuses on the 1963 bombing of the 16th st. Church that killed four young girls in times when the police try to disperse young demonstrator...

Protest of George Wallaces segregation now, segregation forever a doctoral address. And for the first time they had said its wrong and that was a really notable departure for someone to make a public statement. We listened to that now and it just seems so trivial for somebody to say that but at the time they were really going out on a limb. So when they get this back from king you know they go you are so misunderstood and when i interviewed him in the 80s he was still complaining about how king ...

We still find that people in those communities are saying thats an old case. We dont need to revive it. Why bring up the past . Lets let it go. Lets let god take care of it. And i answer did not god give us a mind . Did not god give us the strength . Why are we depending on that . That can bring closure, i feel, to all of these negatives that still float around in the air, whether they be in mississippi or whether it be in other parts of this country. It was the same thing that was told to me. Y...

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The investigation into Malcolm X's assassination has undergone several reviews, uncovering new evidence that has raised questions about the original investigation and trial. The FBI and NYPD have been implicated in potential cover-ups and mishandling of evidence. A 2020 Netflix documentary, Who Killed Malcolm X? brought renewed attention to the case, presenting fresh evidence and theories. In 2021, Butler and Johnson were formally exonerated after a reinvestigation found inconsistencies in ...

Zara Jemuel — Capitalism’s white supremacist roots run as deep as its colonial origins.

For Malcolm X, Zionism was inextricably linked to wider European colonialism. In a little known passage written just before his assassination, he made it clear he saw Zionism as not just a threat to Palestine, but to the entire Third World.

We cannot understand the last fifty years of U.S. history—certainly not the first thing about Black history—without studying the emergence and evolution of rap.