New Netflix Documentary Avoids the Why in Favor of the “Who Killed Malcolm X?”

By largely ignoring questions of “why” he was killed the new Netflix documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X?” largely ignores the important politics and ideas that made Malcolm X a symbol to this day of international revolutionary struggle.

REFERENCED ITEMS:

• A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
• The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the Extreme
• Defining Black Power: Dr. Jared Ball Debates Peniel Joseph
• Stokely: A Review of ‘Our Premier Interpreter’ of Black Power Studies
• Whose Malcolm X? Amiri Baraka and Bill Fletcher Debate
• The “Black Messiah:” The Life and Assassination of Malcolm X (featuring Baba Zak Kondo)

source: https://imixwhatilike.org/2020/02/08/whokilledmalcolmx/