AfricaNow! May 22, 2024 Reflections on Malcolm X…Pt. I—Contextualizing El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

AfricaNow! May 22, 2024 Reflections on Malcolm X…Pt. I—Contextualizing El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Topic and Guests: As we commemorate WPFW's spirit of education for liberation and Malcolm X's birthday (May 19) AfricaNow! goes into archives (original show aired on Januaray 10, 2024 at https://soundcloud.com/africanowonline/africanow-jan-10-2024-reflections-on-malcolm-xpt-icontextualizing-el-hajj-malik-el-shabazz) with the first part of a series which highlights some of the discussions which took place during the Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle conference held in New York City in November 1990. More than 3,000 people from 25 countries attended the conference which featured more than 100 speakers led 24 sessions that deeply explored, contextualized, and situated El Hajj Malik El Shabazz in the genealogy of Black radical internationalism as a Pan Africanist. In Part I—Contextualizing El Hajj Malik El Shabazz you first hear Amiri Baraka opening the conference with a series of meditations on why we need this conference and then a poem titled Today for Malcolm. Then in the following order is—Abdul Alkalimat, Lou Turner, Vikki Garvin, and Yuri Kochiyama contextualize El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. (Full show at Januaray 10, 2024 at https://soundcloud.com/africanowonline/africanow-jan-10-2024-reflections-on-malcolm-xpt-icontextualizing-el-hajj-malik-el-shabazz) MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“BLACK MAN” BY STEVIE WONDER commemorating his birthday which was May 13 (May 13, 1950—); closing song--“MALCOLM X” BY INNA DE YARD FEAT. WINSTON MCANUFF. Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW. Donate online visit pledge.wpfwfm.org/index.php and then on Step 1: Contribution scroll down to AfricaNow! to make your donation to the show. Thank you. Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).