{"id":487231,"date":"2026-06-01T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/why-malcolm-x-matters-even-more-60-years-after-his-killing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:56:00","slug":"why-malcolm-x-matters-even-more-60-years-after-his-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/why-malcolm-x-matters-even-more-60-years-after-his-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Malcolm X matters even more 60 years after his killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm X was the provocative yet charismatic face of Black Nationalism and spokesman for the Nation of Islam before he was gunned down at an event in New York City on Feb. 21, 1965, after breaking with the group. In a new book, \u201cThe Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon\u2019s Enduring Impact on America\u201d (2025), journalist Mark Whitaker \u201979, explores how the controversial Civil &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2025\/08\/why-malcolm-x-matters-even-more-60-years-after-his-killing\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2025\/08\/why-malcolm-x-matters-even-more-60-years-after-his-killing\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm X was the provocative yet charismatic face of Black Nationalism and spokesman for the Nation of Islam before he was gunned down at an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}