Two African-Americans cleared of the assassination of Malcolm X
The two men had been wrongfully convicted and spent around 20 years in prison each They were victims of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in African American history. Two men exonerated in 2021 after twenty years each for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X will receive a total of $36 million from the city and state of New York. Lawyer David Shanies, defender of Muhammad Aziz, 84, and the family of Khalil Islam, who died in 2009, confirmed in an email on Sunday evening