Revisiting Who Killed Malcolm X On Netflix
My two cents…
When Netflix did the promotion to the documentary titled who killed Malcolm X, it was billed as a program with original insights that no one else had bothered to pick on.
As with most fans of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, I lapped it all without having my critical faculties in order.
But the documentary didn’t generate any new insights into who killed the former nation of Islam leader or anything else for that matter.
Why?
Because it leaned very heavily on the information and research generated by the late Professor Manning Marable in his magisterial work Malcolm X, A Life Of Reinvention, which was published in 2010, a year before the scholar’s demise.
In this Pulitzer prize winning work of literature, a complex portrait of the slain leader was painted, with every facet of his life forensically scrutinized. We get to read about the activities of very senior members of the NOI, such as John Ali, who was on the payroll of the FBI, working very hard to undermine the subject of…