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Malcolm X was a Black Internationalist
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford, Desmond Fonseca
26 Oct 2020

Margaret Kimberley · Malcolm X was a Black Internationalist

Especially in the latter years of his life, Malcolm X represented “a reemergence of Black radicalism” after the suppression of the McCarthy period, said Desmond Fonseca, a PhD candidate in history at UCLA.  Fonseca noted that Malcolm, incensed at US subversion of the newly independent Congo, declared: “You can’t understand Mississippi if you don’t understand what’s going on in the Congo.” Today, said Fonseca, Black Democrats, including the Congressional Black Caucus, have nothing to say about Africa.

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