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News Articles: Malcolm X

Malcolm X's daughters, Malikah Shabazz (from left), Attallah Shabazz, Malaak Shabazz and Gamilah Shabazz, talk to the media outside the Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx borough of New York, following the death of their mother, Betty Shabazz on June 23, 1997. A new lawsuit accuses the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader.

Malcolm X's daughters sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the civil rights leader's assassination

A $100 million lawsuit claims the agencies were aware of and were involved in the1965 assassination plot and failed to stop the killing of the civil rights leader.

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  • The Associated Press
Muralist Kevin “Scene” Lewis shows a Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful committee his plan for a Martin Luther King Jr. Mural in the 1400 block of MLK Jr. Blvd. near Downtown Macon. Liz Fabian/ Macon Newsroom

Kennesaw State University architecture students designing new development as KMBB commissions Martin Luther King Jr. mural

Envisioning a new MLK Blvd. gateway to downtown Macon: A bevy of burgeoning architects gathered on a vacant lot along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. last week as Macon-Bibb County Commissioner Paul Bronson issued a challenge. 

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Baritone Will Liverman stars in <em>X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X </em>at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

Malcolm X arrives — finally — at New York's Metropolitan Opera

An opera about civil rights leader Malcolm X opens Friday — nearly 40 years after X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X premiered. The creative team says its message feels more relevant than ever.

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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Workers remove a partial quote by Malcolm X from the facade of the main library at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, R.I..

A partial Malcolm X quote that sparked protest is removed from a university building

The University of Rhode Island removed the inscription from the facade of its library 30 years after Black students protested because they said it misrepresented the fuller meaning his message.

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  • The Associated Press
Ilyasah Shabazz (C), daughter of African-American activist Malcolm X, speaks alongside civil rights attorney Ben Crump (L) and co-counsel Ray Hamlin (R) during a press conference in New York on February 21, at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, formerly known as the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was shot dead at 39 on Feb. 21, 1965.

Malcom X's family is suing the CIA, FBI and NYPD

Malcolm X's daughter Ilyasah Shabazz and attorney Ben Crump talk to Morning Edition's Leila Fadel about their plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the NYPD and other government agencies.

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  • Leila Fadel and
  • Shelby Hawkins
Civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X are shown in a meeting during the 1960s.

200+ movie extras needed for Disney+ series on MLK and Malcolm X

Movie cameras are returning to Macon later this month as Disney+ films an original civil rights era series about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

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Muhammad Aziz, center, stands outside the courthouse with members of his family after his conviction in the killing of Malcolm X was vacated on Thursday in New York. A Manhattan judge dismissed the convictions of Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, after prosecutors and the lawyers said a renewed investigation found new evidence that the men were not involved with the killing.

2 men convicted of killing civil rights leader Malcolm X are exonerated in court

Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam spent more than a half-century being thought of as murderers of one of the nation's most important Black leaders in 1965.

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  • Vanessa Romo and
  • Jonathan Franklin