A new investigation into who killed Malcolm X

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Netflix’s new six-part documentary sees film maker Abdur-Rahman Muhammad decide to do his own investigation into the assassination of US civil rights and religious figure Malcolm X in 1965.

Malcolm X’s case has been cold – yes cold, not solved – for 55 years. The fiery orator and now pop culture icon was assassinated by four assailants. Three men were apprehended, but one refuted the involvement of the others and claimed that his actual accomplices, four other men, escaped.

We know his to be the volatile flip side of the turn-the-other-cheek approach adopted by such loved black icons as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. He was exceedingly more militant in that his quest for justice and equality would be waged “by any means necessary”. The narrative is carefully fitted on to black and white imagery of X at school, his mug shot and, of course, video footage, albeit grainy, of some of his prolific speeches.

X’s connection with political and religious movement Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad is explored. X was a once-favoured son of the Nation of Islam, but lost stock in the regime rapidly when his connection with Muhammad became strained. Muhammad is attributed with bringing Islam as a school of thought to black Americans. He became a wealthy man in his position as the father of this movement and so did his family, some of whom had disdain for X.

 

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I want to do documentary about political violence in the 90's and de klerk's involvement.

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