THE LOST LEGACIES OF MALCOLM AND MARTIN
by Kenan Malik
This essay was the main part of my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on EU moves to reform copyright law). It was published in the Observer, 8 April 2018, under the headline ‘If only we could revive the fruitful tension between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X’. Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead in Memphis by a white segregationist and fugitive, James Earl Ray. Three years earlier, on 21 February 1965, […]
Categories: International, Justice & Liberties, Race & Immigration • Tags: adolph reed, african americans, anti-racism, equality, freedom struggles, identity politics, liberalism, malcom x, martin luther king, racism, usa, working class
