Malcolm X, ex-Bostonian

This week, on Feb. 21, we mark the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest episodes: the assassination of Malcolm X, in New York's Audubon Ballroom, an old movie palace at 165th and Broadway. For Americans already reeling from the assassination of a president, turmoil over civil rights, and the expansion of the Vietnam War in early 1965, this act of brutality confirmed that something was terribly wrong in the world's wealthiest nation.

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