Some have turned tobooks and documentaries on systemic racismto learn more about these inequalities.
Here’s an edited transcript of our conversation.
My mother kept her husband alive in our household.
We knew him as Daddy.
We knew him as Malcolm.
I felt like my father was here.
My professor, George Roberts, helped me to understand the icon Malcolm.
I keep him and my mother quite close.
It’s keeping Malcolm and Betty alive and making sure their work is as accurate as possible.
Before my mother passed away, she safeguarded her husband’s legacy.
Today we see Malcolm had the compassion and all that was necessary to address social justice issues.
Like my father often explained, Black power isn’t exclusionary.
Now more than ever is the time to commit to the work of radical institution building.
We have heeded the call for structural change, innovative institution-building and spirit-driven activism …
It is definitely a moment ripe for regenerative growth and possibility.
We have to make that change.
We have to pull the knife completely out and then address the wound the blow made.
What was good about Malcolm is that he was a realist.
He said: These are the issues.
Because again, no one is free until all of us are free.
