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NEW YORK — Two men who worked security for Malcolm X in the days before he was assassinated said Wednesday that NYPD cops used false arrests to lure them from his side — thus giving his killers a clear target. In sworn affidavits, Khaleel Sayyed, 81, and Walter Bowe, 93, said they were busted on trumped-up charges and kept out of the picture just days before the civil rights leader was slain ...

<p>Surveillance footage in the New York City Archives helps to highlight the importance of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to the northern civil rights movement &ndash; and the efforts of the NYPD to undermine it.&nbsp;</p>

Did a Black undercover NYPD cop unwittingly aid Malcolm X's assassination? By The Washington Post By Sydney Trent On Feb. 20, Reginald Wood Jr., a bespectacled, balding man in a dark suit and striped tie, walked across the wooden stage to the podium at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Manhattan. The place and timing were weighty with symbolism. The centre had been built on the former site of the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated 56 years ago that very weekend. Wood was also speaking on the eve of the trial of former Minneapolis police of...

“I know that my father did not write this letter,” Kelly Wood told NY1. “I know that is not his signature and I know the envelope they’re using to somehow justify that the letter was mailed is also a fake.” The letter was made public by the family of Malcolm X on Feb. 20, 56 years after the liberation icon was murdered in 1965 while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York’s Manhattan borough. Three members of the Nation of Islam were convicted in his murder. In the letter attributed to former un...

Former cop’s deathbed confession reveals his role in assassinating Malcolm X Former cop’s deathbed confession reveals his role in assassinating Malcolm X February 28, 2021 At a press conference on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, almost 56 years to the day of Malcolm X’s assassination, his daughters came together with their attorney, Ben Crump, to read aloud a deathbed “non-confession” from Ray Wood, an infiltrator of various parts of the Black liberation movement, that states his supposed “coercion” by the FBI to murder the great leader and human rights fighter Ma...