Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X (also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) following a brief but lasting career as a civil rights advocate and Black nationalist.

Gov. Jim Pillen signs a proclamation declaring Malcolm X day after he was Inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in the Warner Legislative Chamber in Lincoln on Wednesday, May 22, 2024.

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He was indeed. Seven months later, Malcolm X was murdered at a rally on February 21, 1965. Yet, as I chronicle in my book, "The Afterlife of Malcolm X" (to be published May 13 by Simon & Schuster ...

In The Afterlife of Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker (a former journalist and editor at Newsweek, NBC News and CNN and the author, among other books, of Saying It Loud: 1966 – The Year Black Power Challenged ...

Malcolm X’s assassination may have been more consequential to the movement than King’s and on par with the losses of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and his brother Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 ...

Malcolm X visited Temple 7, a Halal restaurant patronized by Black Muslims, while in Harlem, New York. (Photo by Richard Saunders/Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images) ...

He returned in 2022 to watch the pic’s first public screening in the kingdom, during the second Red Sea Film Festival. It was 60 years ago, in April 1964, that Malcolm X traveled to Jeddah to ...