Malcolm X Day 2023 Celebration
Friday, May 19, 2023, NAAM held our annual Malcolm X Day celebration that featured a day full of activities for the entire community to participate in. We enjoyed food from Soul Fusion food truck right outside the museum. Valencia Carroll hosted a Malcolm X Day arts and crafts activities for families. We also had a Knowledge Is Power Book Giveaway for all reading levels K-12.
Author Jeffrey Lee Cheatham II, joined NAAM for Interactive Story Time reading of Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly by Walter Dean Meyers. The evening concluded with a documentary screening of Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali in Legacy Hall that examined life and legacy of Malcolm X.
Malcolm X Birthday Commemoration
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement and today for those revolutionizing their minds in radical Black thought and overall humanitarian work. He is best known for his unwavering controversial Black racial advocacy, and for time spent as the vocal spokesperson of the Nation of Islam.
In our digital commemoration Think like Malcolm, we’ve composed a list of multi-media resources to discover more about the mind and life of this revolutionary leader.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Malcolm X (1992)
Biographical drama film, directed by Spike Lee
The Liturgists Network podcast, Black History is American History, Ep.17 - Malcolm X
1965 interview with Malcolm X on Front Page Challenge on CBC Television
(Canadian Broadcast Corporation)
Malcolm X Day 2022 Celebration
Featuring a conversation with Abdur-Rahman Muhammad of the Netflix documentary, Who Killed Malcolm X?
View NAAM’s 2022 Virtual Malcolm X Day Program HERE
Malcolm X Day 2021 Celebration
Featuring musical tributes, remarks and reflections, a conversation with Malcolm X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz, performances by Kutt’NUp Dance Crew and Naa Akua, and more!
View NAAM’s 2021 Virtual Malcolm X Day Program HERE
A POEM ABOUT MALCOLM X
For Malcolm X
by Margaret Walker
All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak;
Whose voices echo clamors of our cool capers,
And whose black faces have hollowed pits for eyes.
All you gambling sons and hooked children and bowery bums
Hating white devils and black bourgeoisie,
Thumbing your noses at your burning red suns,
Gather round this coffin and mourn your dying swan.
Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!
Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!
Our blood and water pour from your flowing wounds.
You have cut open our breasts and dug scalpels in our brains.
When and Where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, crying child, unborn?