What Did Malcolm X Mean by Black Land for Black Liberation?
By Kyle T. Mays To celebrate Malcolm X’s birthday, we thought we’d take a closer look at one of the key tenets of the radical civil rights icon’s advocacy for Black liberation in these passages from Kyle T. Mays’s An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States. Land ownership. It’s important to see how Indigenous peoples’ conception of land fit—or didn’t—in his grand scheme of Black people laying claim to land. *** I have read The Autobiography of Malcolm X every summer since I was sixteen; it is my favorite book. During a particularly difficult…
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