![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, as Michael Eric Dyson has observed, "he remains relevant because he spoke presciently to the issues that matter today: black identity, the politics of black rage, the expression of black dissent, the politics of black power, and the importance of consolidating varieties of expressions within black communities-different ideologies and politics-and bringing them together under a banner of functional solidarity." When, in 1965, Malcolm X was gunned down on the stage of a Harlem theater, America lost one of its most dynamic political thinkers. No single individual can claim more important responsibility for a social and historical leap forward such as the one sparked in America in the sixties. He gave African Americans not only their consciousness but their history, dignity, and a new pride. Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure for black America and in American culture at large. The classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with an audio download of Malcolm X delivering two of them. ![]()
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