Sometimes even conspiracy theorists have a point

The exoneration of two men convicted of killing Malcolm X should prompt us to practise listening

21 November 2021 - 18:13 By Stephen L. Carter

The exoneration of two men wrongly convicted of helping to murder Malcolm X is good news for US justice. But it raises the question of why, until Netflix aired the series Who Killed Malcolm X? earlier this year, hardly anybody but a handful of scholars and biographers paid attention to the considerable body of evidence that Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam had been railroaded...

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