El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Malcolm X, was born 91 years ago today.
Political consciousness, critical thinking and the development of
authentic, uncompromising leadership and power were constant themes in
his speeches and in his life. Leid Stories discusses the relevance of
these precepts to our collective situation and status as a society
today.
The late Kwame Turé, a seminal figure in Pan-African
consciousness raising and liberation struggles, bridges past, present
and future in a no-holds-barred, clinical assessment of political
activism in the 1960s, an era of worldwide agitation and struggles for
freedom and liberation. He expounds on five key lessons of that period.