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Malcolm X celebrated connected what would've been his 100th day
New Yorkers remembered Malcom X Monday connected what would person been his 100th birthday.
A brace of gatherings successful Upper Manhattan revisited his inspirational words and his combat for Black empowerment.
At the National Action Network, they celebrated by singing Happy Birthday, implicit with a day cake.
"We are present looking for information and justness for our begetter and our mother, the African diaspora and each antithetic peoples astir the world," Malcolm X's girl Ilyasah Shabazz said.
Malcolm X speaks to reporters successful Washington, D.C., May 16, 1963.
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Shabazz is demanding to cognize much astir her father's murder connected Feb. 21, 1965 successful New York City. He was 39 erstwhile helium was killed, and survived by his widow Dr. Betty Shabazz, an pedagogue and civilian rights activistic who died successful 1997, and their six children.
"We person formally requested that the FBI merchandise Malcolm X papers conscionable arsenic they person released papers connected JFK, RFK and MLK," household lawyer Ben Crump said.
"The affectional pathway of that slug indispensable halt wrong this generation," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said.
Rev. Al Sharpton, the laminitis and president of the National Action Network, was asked however to determination guardant successful Malcom's name.
"Whether it's utilizing societal media, mainstream media, by immoderate means necessary, that's however we fight," Sharpton said.
A gala is besides acceptable to instrumentality spot successful Malcolm X's grant Monday nighttime astatine the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center connected Broadway and West 165th street.
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