AfricaNow! January 10, 2024 Reflections on Malcolm X…Pt. I—Contextualizing El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

Topic and Guests: In November 1990 [1-4], more than 3,000 people from 25 countries attended the Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle conference held in New York City. 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. 

There is an argument that can be made that El Haj Mailk El Shabazz is an archetype of what I have argued elsewhere as a critical Africana human rights consciousness. .... When we turn attention to his evolution as an internationalist activist-theoretician, we can begin to truly grasp the breadth, depth and the rhythms of the various manifestations of Africana peoples struggle for freedom. 

With the insertion of Africana ways of being and forms of knowledge we can begin to see that the human as produced from European modernity, is not the same conception of human as articulated in the various indigenous Africana cosmology, epistemology, ethics. In short, and quoting El Ha Malik El Shabazz, ‘we are talking the same language’. .... 

Shabazz’s critical Africana human rights consciousness called for a reassessment of the African American manifestation of the struggle for freedom to (re)focus its objectives to fight for human rights within an internationalist frame, to be resituated in the long tradition of Black radical internationalism and Pan Africanism. ... 
More importantly, his concerted efforts to develop ideological and organizational expression to a radical internationalist theory of freedom which characterized his evolution, particularly post-NOI, were immense. His direct personal influence on key circles of activists and organizations, historically and contemporarily, has proven to be significant. ... 

Africa World Now Project will share some of this conference in an effort to engender serious engagement, in this very moment, a moment where it is essential to be intentional with one’s political practice with Malcolm. ....More than this, we encourage you to visit Abdul Alkalimat’s website to explore, read, and hear more of the conference. Link will be in the descriptions is you locate the program via various podcast platforms. 

What you will hear next is Pt I – Contextualizing El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, which will be part of a series on this conference. ... 
What you will hear next is Amiria Baraka opening the conference with a series of meditations on 10 why we need this conference and then a poem titled Today for Malcolm.  We then will here next, in the following order is: Abdul Alkalimat, Lou Turner, Vikki Garvin, and Yuri Kochiyama contextualize El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. ...

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“ALL AFRICA” BY MAX ROACH remembering the legendary ancestor drummer, composer, musician’s birthday (January 10, 1924—August 16, 2007); break--“DRUM SOLO & PROGRESS REPORT” BY LEWIS NASH commemorating Lewis Nash’s birthday (December 30, 1958—); sign-off--“YOU DON’T SAY” BY MELBA LISTON commemorating her birthday (January 13, 1926—April 23, 1999); closing song--“MALCOLM X” BY INNA DE YARD FEAT. WINSTON MCANUFF.

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AfricaNow! Jan. 10, 2024 Reflections on Malcolm X…Pt. I—Contextualizing El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

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AfricaNow! Jan. 10, 2024 Reflections on Malcolm X…Pt. I—Contextualizing El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

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