Malcolm X:Beyond Netflix!

THE MALCOLM X COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE

P.O. BOX 380-122, BROOKLYN, NY11238

www.MXCC519.org

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973-202-0745; 917-346-8142

February 14, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MALCOLMITES GO BEYOND NETFLIX!

IN VIRTUAL OBSERVATION OF THE 56TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ASSASSINATION

DEDICATE EVENING TO POLITICAL PRISONER KAMAU SADIKI

On Saturday, February 20th at 5pm EST, in observation of the 56th anniversary of his assassination, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee (MXCC) will host an important virtual roundtable entitled ‘Malcolm X-Beyond Netflix!’

Among the presenters will be Professor Zak Kondo, author of Conspiracies: Unravelling The Assassination of Malcolm X, considered the definitive volume on the assassination and Professor James Small of the Organization of AfroAmerican Unity. It will be moderated by Zayid Muhammad, the founding press officer for MXCC. Kondo and Muhammad were spotlighted in Netflix’s critically acclaimed docuseries Who Killed Malcolm X? Small has served as a consultant for the drama series Godfather In Harlem.

This moving virtual gathering will also include a report back on the recent International Tribunal on Police Violence Against AfroDescendents in the United States by attorney Nana Gyamfi of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, one of the host organizations for the Tribunal. From January 18th to February 6th, the International Commission of Inquiry heard heartwrenching testimony on numerous cases of police violence in the United States over the past 20 years. These testimonies will provide the international Human Rights community with a full picture of the depth and range of Human Rights abuses against people of African descent in the United States.

The event will be dedicated to Panther political prisoner Kamau Sadiki. Sadiki has been in prison since 2002. He was convicted of a police killing that is said to have taken place in Georgia back in 1971. However, serious critics of the courts and the case say that the case is a punitive prosecution because Sadiki would not cooperate with the authorities with apprehending exiled Panther Assata Shakur. Shakur was a codefendent in a NY case in which they were both acquitted. She is mother of one of his daughters. Sadiki has been facing some major health challenges in the last several years, including Hepatitis C, Sarcoidosis and even being threatened with the amputation of his foot. He will be represented by his daughter filmmaker Ksisay Sadiki.

The event will also update the emerging new campaign to secure the release of Sundiata Acoli. This series of events began on May 19th 2020, on the annual birthday appreciation of Malcolm X benefiting Acoli, who just turned 84 in January and is now going into his 48th year in prison. These virtual forums are being done to address organizers not being able to host their long established annual political prisoner dinner tribute and fundraiser, an endearing event they have done for 25 years.

The event is free, but organizers are trying to raise funds for Sadiki’s commissary. Those willing to contribute can do at https://www.paypal.me/PPOWs.

Malcolm X was one of the premier organizers, thinkers and freedom fighters of the modern Black Liberation Movement. His organizing prowess was hugely critical to the rise of the Nation Of Islam. His call for the Black Liberation Movement to internationalize as a struggle for Human Rights instead of a local or national struggle for Civil Rights placed the movement in the company of the global anticolonial struggles of the 20th century. Raising the flag of PanAfricanism as a unifying banner for the movement globally, he was also consummate coalition builder and champion of international human solidarity. He was assassinated on February 21, 1965.

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