Malcolm X's death revisited - CNNStory highlights. Malcolm X was assassinated on February 2. Zaheer Ali: Fifty years later, we still have more to learn from Malcolm X's life.

Zaheer Ali served as project manager of the Malcolm X Project at Columbia University, and as a lead researcher for Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize- winning Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. He lectures on African American history. The views expressed are his own. Tune into a CNN special report, Witnessed, The Assassination of Malcolm X, tonight at 9p ET. CNN)When Malcolm X was assassinated on February 2.

Americans viewed his killing as simply the result of an ongoing feud between him and the Nation of Islam. He had publicly left the Nation of Islam in March 1. Malcolm's camp and the Nation of Islam grew increasingly caustic, with bitter denunciations coming from both sides.

A week before he was killed, Malcolm's home - - owned by the Nation of Islam, which was seeking to evict him - - was firebombed, and Malcolm believed members of the Nation of Islam to be responsible. For investigators and commentators alike, then, his death was an open and shut case: Muslims did it. Yet although three members of the Nation of Islam were tried and found guilty for the killing, two of them maintained their innocence and decades of research has since cast doubt on the outcome of the case.

Tens of thousands of declassified pages documenting government surveillance, infiltration and disruption of black leaders and organizations - - including Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam - - suggest the conclusions drawn by law enforcement were self- serving. Furthermore, irregularities in how investigators and prosecutors handled the case reflect at best gross negligence, and at worst something more sinister. At the time of his death, Time magazine remembered Malcolm X unsympathetically as "a pimp, a cocaine addict and a thief" and "an unashamed demagogue." But for those who had been paying closer attention to him, Malcolm X was an uncompromising advocate for the urban poor and working- class black America. Instead of advocating integration, he called for self- determination; instead of nonviolence in the face of violent anti- black attacks, he called for self- defense. He reserved moral appeals for other people committed to social justice; the government, on the other hand, he understood in terms of organized power - - to be challenged, disrupted and/or dismantled - - and sought to leverage alliances with newly independent African states to challenge that power. It was his challenge to the organized power of the state that appealed to growing numbers of African- Americans, and it was this challenge that also attracted a close following among federal, state and local law enforcement.

Under Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover's watch, the FBI kept close tabs on Malcolm's every move through the use of informants and agents. Even before Malcolm began attracting large audiences and widespread media coverage in the late 1. FBI reported on his efforts to organize Nation of Islam mosques around the country. One organizing meeting in a private home in Boston in 1. FBI. After Malcolm left the Nation of Islam in March 1.

Malcolm, but still perceived him as a threat. On June 5, 1. 96. Hoover sent a telegram to the FBI's New York office that simply and plainly instructed, "Do something about Malcolm X enough of this black violence in NY." One wonders, what that "something" was.

In New York, the FBI's actions were complemented by, if not coordinated with, the New York Police Department's Bureau of Special Services, which regularly logged license plates of cars parked outside mosques, organizational meetings, business and homes. The actions of the police on the day of Malcolm's assassination are particularly noteworthy. Normally up to two dozen police were assigned at Malcolm X's rallies, but on February 2. Audubon ballroom where the meeting took place. And while two uniformed officers were inside the building, they remained in a smaller room, at a distance from the main event area. The lack of a police presence was unusual and was compounded by internal compromises on the part of Malcolm's own security staff, which included at least one Bureau of Special Services agent who had infiltrated his organization. Reportedly at Malcolm's request, his security had abandoned the search procedure that had been customary at both Nation of Islam and Muslim Mosque/Organization of Afro- American Unity meetings.

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Without the search procedure, his armed assassins were able to enter the ballroom undetected. When the assassins stood up to shoot Malcolm, his security guards stationed at the front of the stage moved not to secure him, but to clear out of the way.

These anomalies, in and of themselves, could have been inconsequential. But combined, even if just by coincidence, they proved to be deadly, and allowed for one of the most prophetic revolutionary voices of the 2. The investigation that followed was just as careless. The crime scene was not secured for extensive forensic analysis - - instead, it was cleaned up to allow for a scheduled dance to take place that afternoon, with bullet holes still in the wall! For activists, of course, Malcolm X's death took on greater significance than law enforcement publicly expressed. Congress of Racial Equality Chairman James Farmer was among the first to suggest that Malcolm's murder was more than just an act of sectarian violence between two rival black organizations. I believe this was a political killing," he asserted, in response to Malcolm's growing national profile within the civil rights movement.

He called for a federal inquiry - - unbeknownst to Farmer, an ironic request given the level of covert federal oversight that was already in place. Slowly, Farmer's doubts gained considerable traction. Author and journalist Louis Lomax, who had covered Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam on several occasions, put Malcolm X's assassination in context with Martin Luther King Jr.'s in "To Kill a Black Man" (1. More than four decades ago, activist George Breitman was among the first to challenge the police version of who was responsible for Malcolm X's death. More recently, the work done at Columbia University's Malcolm X Project, culminating in Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize- winning "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," echoed these doubts and put at the forefront these unanswered questions about Malcolm X's murder. These questions deserve answers.

After the Bombing. Speech at Ford Auditorium. Malcolm X, transcribed and edited by the. Malcolm X Museum and Noaman. Ali. You can listen to this speech, click.

Real. Player, approx. February 1. 4. 1. Malcolm. delivered this speech on the very night that his home in New York. He was terribly tired and worried, yet he still. Detroit- - this shows his extreme courage. This is probably his last speech outside of New.

York, and displays his intellect and honesty, as well as his ideas. Distinguished. guests, brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, friends and enemies: I. I am very happy to be here this evening. I'm thankful [to the Afro- American Broadcasting Company] for the. Detroit this evening. I was in a house. It didn't destroy all my clothes.

The only thing I could get my hands on before leaving was. I have on now. It. I am doing, because. I have children from this size on down, and.

I think they would rather. So. I just ask you to excuse my appearance. I don't normally come out. I guess that's somewhat.

Black Muslim' movement, which I was in. That's. one of the good aspects of that movement. It teaches you to be very. But that positive contribution on their part is greatly. Tonight. we want to discuss - - and by the way, also, when I came here today.

I was a bit - - last night, the temperature was about twenty above. I was caught in what I had on. And in trying to get my family out of the house, none. I myself was - - I had gotten them into the house of the neighbor next. So I thought perhaps being in that condition for so long I would. I've been back there asleep ever since the program. So if I have a tendency to.

I don't. know what kind it was, but it was good; it makes you sleep, and there's. Tonight. one of the things that has to be stressed is that which has not only. United States very much worried but which also has France, Great. Britain, and most of the powers, who formerly were known as colonial. African revolution.

They are more concerned with the revolution that's taking place on. African continent than they are with the revolution in Asia and.

Latin America. And this is because there are so many people of. African ancestry within the domestic confines or jurisdiction of these. There. are four different types of people in the Western Hemisphere, all. Africa as a common heritage, common origin, and that's.

Latin America, who are Black, but who. Spanish- speaking areas.

Many of them ofttimes migrate back. Spain, the only difference being Spain has such bad economic conditions.

Latin America don't think it's worthwhile. And then the British and the French had a great. Caribbean, in the West Indies. And so now you. have many people from the West Indies migrating to both London - -. England and France. The people from the British West Indies.

London, and those from the French West Indies go to Paris. And. it has put France and England since World War II in the precarious. So there's an increasing. England and also in France.

When. I was in Africa in May, I noticed a tendency on the part of the Afro- Americans. I call lollygag. Everybody else who was over there had something. For. instance, in Ghana, just to take Ghana as an example. There would. be many refugees in Ghana from South Africa. But those who were in. Ghana were organized and were serving as pressure groups, some were. Ghana never forget what's happening to the brother in.

South Africa. Also you'd have brothers there from Angola and Mozambique. But all of the Africans who were exiles from their particular country. Ghana or Tanganyika, now Tanzania, they. Their every move would still be designed to offset. The. only difference on the continent was the American Negro. Those who. were over there weren't even thinking about these over here.

This. was the basic difference. The Africans, when they escaped from their. But as soon as they got where they were.

And. as I said, the American Negro, or the Afro- American, who was in these. And. when I went through one country in particular, I heard a lot of their. I didn't make any move on them.

But. when I got to another country, I found the Afro- Americans there were. So we sat down and talked and we organized.

OAAU, Organization. Watch Online Watch Hidalgo Full Movie Online Film more. Afro- American Unity. That one was the only one in existence at. Then during the summer, when I went back to Africa, I was. Watch Broken Flowers Download. I visited, to get the Afro- American community. They. began to do this quite well, and when I got to Paris and London - -.

Afro- Americans in Paris, and many in London. And in. December - - no, November - - we organized a group in Paris and just.

And they, in conjunction with the African community, invited me to. Paris, Tuesday, to address a large gathering of Parisians and Afro- Americans. Caribbean and also from Africa who were interested. But. since the French government and the British government and this government. United States, know that I have been almost fanatically. Afro- American uniting with the African.

And the governments in these different places. Black revolution that's. The Ghost And The Whale Full Movie Online Free.

And. I might point out right here that colonialism or imperialism, as the. West is called, is not something that's just confined.

England or France or the United States. But the interests in this. France and the interests. Britain. It's one huge complex or combine, and it creates what's. American power structure or the French power structure.

And this international. So. that the era in which you and I have been living during the past ten. Black man in Africa against the power structure. He wants his freedom. Now. mind you, the power structure is international, and as such, its own.

London, in Paris, in Washington, D. C., and so. forth. And the outside or external phase of the revolution, which. Africans today is troublesome. The revolution on the outside of the house, or the outside. But now the powers that be. Black. man is affecting, infecting the Black man who is on the inside of.

I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. The. newly awakened people all over the world pose a problem for what's. Western interests, which is imperialism, colonialism, racism.

Just as the. external forces pose a grave threat, they can now see that the internal. But the internal forces pose an. Just. by advocating a coalition of Africans, Afro- Americans, Arabs, and. Asians who live within the structure, it automatically has upset France. England the same way. And I don't have to tell you about this country that we are living. So. when you count the number of dark- skinned people in the Western Hemisphere.

When you consider.