By The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee
“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand under its weight…” – Malcolm X
Anthology Film Archives continues its special series observing the Centennial of Malcolm X called Malcolm X MultiDimensional.
Curated by young Black Radical scholar Yasmina Price of Yale University, it began on September 11th and runs until September 21st.
Here is the link for the full series… Anthology Film Archives : Film Screenings
The host organizers describe the series this way: “MALCOLM X: MULTIDIMENSIONAL brings together a cinematic and audiovisual cultural memory to frame his multifaceted legacy, intertwining Islam, education, Black Nationalism, militant organizing, incarceration, and Third Worldist solidarity.
“Through mythmaking, recordkeeping, documentaries, and experimental films; network programs of speeches and interviews with Malcolm X as well as his contemporaries and inheritors; documentation by Black television producers; and the radical imaginaries of artists, the series constructs a prismatic perspective on the many people Malcolm X was, and places the individual in a collective picture…”
MXCC Chair Zayid Muhammad will participate in teach-ins held on September 17th on Black Television at 6 30 pm and on September 19th on You Remember Internationalism at 6:30 pm. On September 18th Panther veteran and Malcolm X scholar Rosemari Mealy will participate in the teach-in on Unlearning Prisons at 6 30 pm. Mealy gave us the time honored Memories of a Meeting: Fidel Castro Meets Malcolm X. September 19th marks the 65th anniversary of that epic meeting in Harlem.
Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Avenue, Lower Manhattan. Call for ticketing 212 505 5181…
Revolutionary 4th Sundays continues
The faith of Malcolm X!
On Sunday, September 28th, in observance of the Centennial of Malcolm X, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee continues its online Revolutionary 4th Sundays Series with The Faith of Malcolm X, featuring Prof James Small and Imam Dr Al Hajj Talib Abdul Rashid.
The Forum will be dedicated to the late Bilal Sunni Ali and to political prisoner Imam Jamil Abdullah AlAmin, the former H Rap Brown. It comes with a special urgency for Imam Jamil, who is terminally ill and is valiantly fighting to clear his name.
James Small is a long time cherished PanAfrican scholar specializing in a number of areas, most notably African Spiritual Systems. As a young member of Malcolm’s Organization of Afro American Unity, Small was tasked with being personal security for Ella Little Collins, Malcolm’s oldest sister, implementing the annual pilgrimage to Malcolm’s gravesite, which he continues to faithfully do, and with being Imam at Muslim Mosque Inc.
In 1968, he led an armed takeover of City College that ushered in that College’s Africana Studies program where he would then become a part of that faculty for decades.
Imam Talib Abdur Rashid was mentored by Sheikh Allama Al Hajj K Ahmad Tawfiq, the founder of the Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood. The Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood is the successor Mosque to Malcolm’s Muslim Mosque Inc. Imam Talib has served faithfully as the Senior Imam of the Mosque since 1989!
The conversation will take place at 7pm LIVE on the YouTube page of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee.
Be the first to comment