As Democrats rally in Chicago around Kamala Harris, civil rights veterans will mark the 60th anniversary of history-changing testimony at a past convention in Atlantic City, N.J. Source: New York Times
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Harlem Mourns the Rev. Calvin Butts III
By Gotham Rex on October 30, 2022
Congregants and neighbors remembered a pastor who they said was determined to fight racism and lift up the Black community. Source: New York Times
New York to Pay $26 Million to Men Wrongly Convicted of Killing Malcolm X
By Gotham Rex on October 30, 2022
Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam spent more than 20 years in prison after the civil rights leader was assassinated in 1965. He had broken with the Nation of Islam. Source: New York Times
Eli N. Evans, Who Wrote About Jews in the American South, Dies at 85
By Gotham Rex on August 2, 2022
His book “The Provincials” mixed memoir, travelogue and history to tell the story of a culture that many people never knew existed. Source: New York Times
Jackie Robinson Museum Focuses on Civils Rights and Baseball
By Gotham Rex on July 26, 2022
Robinson accomplished a great deal on the field, but a museum celebrating his life — that will have a ribbon-cutting this week — puts as much focus on his civil rights work. Source: New York Times
Man Exonerated in Malcolm X Murder Sues New York City After Talks Collapse
By Gotham Rex on July 14, 2022
Muhammad A. Aziz filed the $40 million claim on Thursday, seeking redress for a conviction that overshadowed 55 years of his life. Source: New York Times
Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books
By Gotham Rex on June 9, 2022
“Picture the Dream,” on display at the New-York Historical Society, shows that children, far from being mere witnesses to the civil rights movement, have played central roles in it. Source: New York Times
Man Exonerated in Malcolm X Murder Files Lawsuit Against New York State
By Gotham Rex on December 14, 2021
Muhammad A. Aziz filed the claim on Tuesday, along with a notice seeking a settlement with the city, for the toll that being “unjustly branded as a convicted murderer” for 55 years took on his life. Source: New York Times
Rev. W. Sterling Cary, Pioneering Black Churchman, Dies at 94
By Gotham Rex on November 19, 2021
He embraced what became known as Black liberation theology and, in 1972, became the first Black leader of the National Council of Churches. Source: New York Times
Malcolm X Assassination: Questions About the Case Linger
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2021
Scholars have never accepted the official explanation for the murder. That is unlikely to change. Source: New York Times
Exoneration Is ‘Bittersweet’ for Men Cleared in Malcolm X’s Murder
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2021
An emotional crowd burst into applause in a packed Manhattan courtroom Thursday after the judge threw out the convictions of Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam. Source: New York Times
J. Edgar Hoover Hid That Malcolm X Witnesses Were F.B.I. Informants
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2021
Mr. Hoover, the agency’s longtime director, gave orders that led “multiple witnesses” to conceal their roles as informants, prosecutors said. Source: New York Times
Who Are Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam?
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2021
In 1965, the two men were members of the Nation of Islam militia, working at the Harlem mosque that Malcolm X led before breaking with the group. Source: New York Times
A New Witness Supports the Alibi of One of the Wrongly Convicted Men
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2021
The witness is an 80-year-old Brooklyn resident who answered the telephone at the Nation of Islam Mosque in Harlem the day Malcolm X was killed. Source: New York Times
2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated
By Gotham Rex on November 17, 2021
The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader. Source: New York Times