Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. His detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history, and in 1998, Time named The Autobiography of Malcolm X one of the ten most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.
Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. His detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history, and in 1998, Time named The Autobiography of Malcolm X one of the ten most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.
Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska. The events of his childhood, including his father's lessons concerning black pride and self-reliance, and his own experiences concerning race played a significant role in Malcolm X's adult life. By the time he was thirteen, his father had died and his mother had been committed to a mental hospital. After living in a series of foster homes, Malcolm X became involved in a number of criminal activities in Boston and New York City. In 1946, Malcolm X was sentenced to eight to ten years in prison.
While in prison, Malcolm X became a member of the Nation of Islam, and after his parole in 1952 he became one of the Nation's leaders and chief spokesmen. For nearly a dozen years he was the public face of the controversial group. Tension between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, head of the Nation of Islam, led to Malcolm X's quitting the organization in March 1964. He subsequently traveled extensively throughout Africa and the Middle East and founded Muslim Mosque, Inc., a religious organization, and the secular Organization of Afro-American Unity, which advocated Pan-Africanism. Less than a year after he left the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X was assassinated by three members of the group while giving a speech in New York.
The beliefs expressed by Malcolm X changed during his lifetime. As a spokesman for the Nation of Islam he taught black supremacy and deified the leaders of the organization. He also advocated the separation of black and white Americans, which put him at odds with the civil rights movement, which was working towards integration. After he left the Nation of Islam in 1964, Malcolm X became a Sunni Muslim, made the pilgrimage to Mecca and disavowed racism, while remaining a champion of black self-determination, self defense, and human rights. He expressed a willingness to work with civil rights leaders and described his previous position with the Nation of Islam as that of a "zombie".
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Orwell: 2+2=5
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Release Date:03/10/2025
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
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Release Date:11/09/2024
America's Woman
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Release Date:13/08/2024
Four Died Trying: Prologue
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Release Date:22/11/2023
Stand
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Release Date:03/02/2023
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
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Release Date:08/09/2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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Release Date:02/07/2021
Malcolm X and the Sudanese
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Release Date:04/12/2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
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Release Date:11/09/2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
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Release Date:03/07/2020
Da 5 Bloods
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Release Date:12/06/2020
Mike Wallace Is Here
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Release Date:26/07/2019
Barney's Wall
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Release Date:04/05/2019
The Apollo
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Release Date:24/04/2019
When Tariq Ali Met Malcolm X
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Release Date:21/02/2019
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
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Release Date:28/10/2018
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
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Release Date:02/08/2018
Burn Motherfucker, Burn!
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Release Date:21/04/2017
13th
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Release Date:07/10/2016
Lemonade
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Release Date:23/04/2016
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
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Release Date:23/08/2013
COINTELPRO 101
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Release Date:07/05/2010
Motherland
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Release Date:23/02/2010
Black Power Salute
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Release Date:09/07/2008
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
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Release Date:16/01/2007
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
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Release Date:02/04/2002
A Huey P. Newton Story
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Release Date:18/06/2001
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Release Date:01/04/2001
Muhammad Ali The Whole Story
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Release Date:03/09/1996
All Power to the People!
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Release Date:01/06/1996
The Real Malcolm X
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Release Date:18/11/1992
Black Women, Sexual Politics and the Revolution
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Release Date:01/01/1992
Death Scenes 2
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Release Date:01/01/1992
The FBI's War on Black America
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Release Date:01/01/1990
A Decade of Struggle
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Release Date:01/06/1980
Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X
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Release Date:19/05/1975
Malcolm X
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Release Date:24/05/1972
Dynamite Chicken
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Release Date:20/01/1971
a.k.a. Cassius Clay
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Release Date:03/11/1970
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
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Release Date:21/11/1969
A Tribute to Malcolm X
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Release Date:01/01/1967
Black Liberation
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Release Date:01/01/1967
The Negro and the American Promise
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Release Date:01/01/1963
Walk in My Shoes
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Release Date:19/09/1961
The Hate That Hate Produced
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Release Date:17/07/1959
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