Malcolm X was a revolutionary whose clarity and courage transformed the Black freedom struggle and connected it to the liberation of oppressed peoples worldwide. He was born Malcolm Little in Omaha in 1925 to parents who organized for Marcus Garvey's movement. He lost his father to violence and saw his family torn apart by poverty and the state. While in prison, he educated himself and joined the Nation of Islam. As a minister in Harlem, he became the most powerful voice for Black self-respect, self-defense, and self-determination in the country, refusing to beg for acceptance from a system built on Black oppression.

After breaking with the Nation of Islam in 1964, Malcolm deepened his politics into an internationalist, anti-imperialist vision. He traveled to Mecca and across Africa, meeting heads of state including Kwame Nkrumah and addressing the Organization of African Unity. He founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, modeled on it, and set out to bring the United States before the United Nations for its crimes against Black people. Moving beyond the language of civil rights, he spoke of human rights. He linked the struggle in America's cities to the revolutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and he increasingly named capitalism as the root of racism.

On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem as he began to speak. In 2021, two men convicted of his killing were exonerated after evidence emerged that the FBI and the New York police had withheld information, raising lasting questions about the state's role. Through his speeches and his autobiography, his voice has shaped generations of revolutionaries. His legacy remains a call to see our struggle as part of a global fight against empire, and to win freedom by any means necessary.

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