MALCOLM X: THE CONFERENCE

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New Research on Malcolm X 

Online Reference : Malcolm X : Research site
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Malcolm X

Malcolm X, The End of White Supremacy (1971)

Discussion Questions

1. Discuss the role of technology in society and its impact on the Black liberation struggle in the talks by Gus John and Errol McLeod.
2. Eddie Madanagu calls names at the end of his talk. Do you know who these people are and why their names should be called?
Malcolm X Martin Luther King
Eduardo Mondlane Che Guevara
Nelson Mandela Fidelk Castro
Kwame Nkrumah  Sekou Toure
Debmark Vesey Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass  W E B DuBois
Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth
Paul Robeson Steven Biko
Thomas Sankara

3. Discuss this analysis in the talk by Babu: "I'm telling you one thing that Malcolm had always emphasized: that if there is a class, and if it's the oppressed class who should lead the class struggle, then Black people should/will be in it. They have nothing to lose ,literally, nothing to lose but their chains."
4. Is there any good news on the international scene? Discuss the following:
a. The Zapatista movement in Mexico
b. Computer literacy in Cuba
c. South African Communist Party

Additional Reading 
  Webliography

1. Global Pan African Movement
http://www.prairienet.org/acas/panafrican.html
2. Speeches by Fidel Castro
http://www3.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/
3. Kwame Nkrumah
http://www.nkrumah.net/
4. South African Communist Party
http://www.sacp.org.za/
5. Zapatista's
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/zapatista.html
6. CNN
http://www.cnn.com/
7. BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml

 

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