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• Malcolm X

  Malcom X – Leaving Shabazz

  1 May 2011, by ALI Tariq

  Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Allen Lane: London and New York 2011, £30, hardback, 592 pp, 978 0 713 99895 5.
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  LEAVING SHABAZZ
  The rich repertoire of songs and music that African-Americans have produced over the last century has to a large extent (...)

• Malcolm X

  The missing Malcolm

  January 2009, by BLACK Simon J., MARABLE Manning

  DR. MARABLE, when we speak of W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King, we are not only speaking of great intellectuals and civil rights leaders, but of democratic socialists. Malcolm also moved to the left in his later life. Much of this has been suppressed or (...)

• Malcolm X

  In the US: The Ballot or the Bullet – “The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?”

  3 April 1964, by Malcolm X

  The Ballot or the Bullet
  Mr. Moderator, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can’t believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don’t want to leave anybody out. The question tonight, as I understand it, is “The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?” or What Next?" (...)

• Malcolm X

  Black Nationalism in the US: A Declaration of Independence [from the Nation of Islam]

  12 March 1964, by Malcolm X

  A Declaration of Independence
  Because 1964 threatens to be a very explosive year on the racial front, and because I myself intend to be very active in every phase of the American Negro struggle for human rights, I have called this press conference this morning in order to clarify my own (...)