Malcolm X

April 27, 2011

HE was publicly assassinated, aged just 39.

Since then, Malcolm X lives on as a story with its beginnings in a time, in a place, both savage and unjust: the United States in the 1960s, with the shrill echoes of Billie Holiday’s song ‘Strange Fruit’ about black bodies dangling from the trees.But it is not just that. If Malcolm X lives on, it is not only because his life dealt with cruel differences between peoples. It is also the story of s

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