[Black History Month] The Malcolm X Museum Presents Its Annual Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Assassination of Malcolm X / El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

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Black History Month
The Malcolm X Museum Presents Its Annual Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Assassination of Malcolm X / El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

Thursday February 21th, 2013 from 6:30pm to 9pm (free admission)
@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Malcolm X Blvd. & 135th Street, Harlem, NY   MAP

This year marks 48th anniversary after the assassination of Malcolm X and the Schomburg Center in Harlem hosts a Panel Discussion of Contemporary Corporate Media Culture and Its Effects Upon Black America With:

Dami Akinnusi – Filmmaker: Malcolm’s Echo

Prof. Jelani Cobb – University of Connecticut

Moikgantsi Kgama – Founder of ImageNation Cinema Foundation

Django Unchained:

Black Cultural Advancement or Degradation?

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” Malcolm X (1925 – 1965)

This event is already sold out but all registered seats are released 15 minutes before start time so you still have a chance. Please arrive early.

For more information, please contact The Malcolm X Museum at (212) 340-9502.

The Malcolm X Museum is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1997 and chartered by the Board of Regents of the New York State Education Department.

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