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From Harlem to Hartsdale, the memory and legacy of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) reverberated in and around New York on Tuesday. A contingent of early risers greeted the dawn with [Malcolm X] on their minds and headed north to Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, where Malcolm rests in eternal peace beside his beloved Dr. Betty Shabazz.
"Malcolm got his early manhood training from a negative experience acquired in the streets," said [Sam Anderson], "but he gradually turned his life around during his years in prison."The Rev. Al Sharpton recalled the heartache the family had endured after the assassination of Malcolm 44 years ago near the very spot where the minister stood (and pieces of the actual floor were displayed). "The family took the pain for us, and for so many ungrateful people," he said. "Malcolm changed our minds and brought home the globalization of the African experience. He taught us that we were kidnapped royalty.Rather than closing doors, Dr. Sam Anderson of the Malcolm X Museum sought to open a few minds at the Schomburg Center, where a good number of fathers (and mothers) arrived with their children to honor Malcolm's devotion to fatherhood and his dedication to family on what would have been his 84th birthday.See the full content of this document
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Malcolm X Resurrected
From Harlem to Hartsdale, the memory and legacy of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) reverberated in and around New York on Tuesday. A contingent of early risers greeted...
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