Michael de Frietas, later known as Michael Abdul Malik and Michael X, was a controversial black revolutionary figure born in Port-au-Spain, Trinidad in 1933. He was mixed-race. Iona Brown, his mother, was working-class and a known African spiritualist in their community in Trinidad. His estranged father, Emmanuel de Frietas, was Portuguese and resided in St. Kitts where he accumulated wealth from his chains …
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February 24, 2021
DENZEL WASHINGTON
Denzel Washington has been nominated for an Oscar an impressive eight times for acting roles, and another as a producer.
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February 21, 2021
MALCOLM SHABAZZ – REPORT OF THE PASSING OF MALCOLM X’S GRANDSON (2013)
On Friday, a godmother of Malcolm Shabazz, Ruth Clark, said on her Twitter account: “My heart is heavy, yet I find peace that my godson is among the angels.”
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MALCOLM X INTERVIEWED ON US TV SHOW, FRONT PAGE CHALLENGE: 1965
Malcolm speaks on his split from the Nation of Islam, the accusation that he called Martin Luther King an Uncle Tom; the accusation that he preaches hate and exactly wha he means by saying, by any means necessary.
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February 20, 2021
MALCOLM X: DEMOCRACY IS HYPOCRISY
“They attack the victim, and then accuse the victim on attacking them”
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February 20, 2021
COINTELPRO – GOALS
In the 1960’s, COINTELPRO’s targets frequently included civil rights activists, both those who espoused non-violence, like Martin Luther King, and those that Hoover referred to as “black nationalist hate groups,” like the Black Panthers.
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February 19, 2021
BOBBY SEALE
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
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COINTELPRO
Within one year of the formation
of the Black Panther Party, the FBI established a special counter-intelligence program called COINTELPRO, to neutralize political dissidents.
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February 7, 2021
CLIP: MALCOLM X INTERVIEW, 1964
Context: Malcolm has left the Nation of Islam and founded his own organisation, The Muslim Mosque
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MESSAGE TO THE GRASSROOTS: MALCOLM X, 1963
We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy — the white man. He’s an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren’t enemies. Time will tell.