Vol. 76/No. 22      June 4, 2012

About 100 attended an outdoor program Friday evening in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park to listen to hip-hop performances, poetry and speakers. Among those celebrating Malcolm’s life and political legacy were Londell McMillan, publisher of Source magazine; professor James Small and Dr. Leonard Jeffries, formerly with the City University of New York’s Black Studies Department; Dr. James Turner, founder of the Cornell University Africana Studies and Research Center; Les Payne, former associate editor of the New York daily Newsday; Steve Clark, editor of the Pathfinder Press book Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power and other writings by Malcolm; and two of Malcolm’s daughters, Ilyasah and Malaak Shabazz.

The next day the center sponsored a street fair at 165th St. and Broadway, followed by a program at the center. Close to 300 people attended, including a number from Baltimore and Philadelphia. Baba Zak Kondo, author of Unraveling the Assassination of Malcolm X and participant in the documentary Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X, was the featured speaker.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party participated in the events and introduced people to Pathfinder literature and the Militant newspaper. Eleven subscriptions to the Militant and 11 copies of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power were picked up, along with other books on revolutionary working-class politics.
 
 
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