Virtual forum on the ‘Faith of Malcolm X’

On Sunday, July 23, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee (MXCC) will host a transferring digital teach-in on “The Religion of Malcolm X.” The discussion board begins at 2 p.m.

It is going to characteristic pioneering Islamic Ladies’s Rights champion and archivist Aisha Al-Adawiya and Schomburg Scholar- in- Residence Yannis Mahil.

Al-Adawiya, a pioneering champion of girls’s rights in Islam, is the founding father of Ladies in Islam, Inc. She is the not too long ago -retired coordinator of Islamic enter for the Preservation of the Black Non secular Heritage Documentation Mission on the Schomburg Heart for Analysis in Black Tradition, has appeared in quite a few worldwide boards, and has served on quite a lot of boards,  together with that of the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Academic Heart.

Yannis Mahil is winding down his keep on the Schomburg Heart as its scholar-in-residence. He’s a local of Morocco and is at the moment engaged on his personal e-book on Malcolm X.

Beloved elder freedom fighter and cultural employee Bilal Sunni Ali will even be a particular visitor on behalf of  Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the gathering’s political prisoner highlight. Coming from a Garveyite household, becoming a member of NY chapter of the Black Panther Occasion, surviving being focused by the state, and performing with the late Gil Scott Heron —, what has Bilal Sunni Ali not finished?

Al-Amin is combating for his launch after having been framed for killing a police officer in Georgia 20 years in the past. Greatest referred to as H. Rap Brown from his legendary presence within the Civil Rights Motion, Imam Jamil has endured and continues to face severe well being points, together with most cancers and a stroke. A full-fledged marketing campaign to safe his freedom is in movement and is coordinated by the Imam Jamil Motion Community (https://imamjamilactionnetwork.org/).

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