An upcoming Netflix series has prompted the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to review the murder of Malcolm X.
The civil rights icon was gunned down on February 21, 1965, while addressing a group at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. His assassination will be explored in wake of the new findings uncovered in the Netflix docuseries, CNN reports.
The six-part series “Who Killed Malcolm X?” originally premiered on Fusion last year, but was added to Netflix last Friday. In it, historian and investigative journalist Abdur-Rahman Muhammad attempts to answer the title’s question.
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via Complex:
Abdur-Rahman Muhammad calls into question whether Muhammad Aziz, 81, was actually involved in the death of the civil rights activist. Aziz, along with Mujahid Abdul Halim and Khalil Islam, were convicted of murder in 1966, and sentenced to life in prison.
Halim confessed to his part in the assassination of Malcolm X at their trial while also maintaining that Aziz and Islam had “nothing to do with it,” claiming that he knew the four other people involved, but refused to give up their identities.
Islam was released in 1987, and died in 2009. Halim was paroled in 2010. Aziz was released on parole in 1985, and became the head of the Nation of Islam’s mosque in Harlem in 1998. He has since fought to clear his name.
Source: Netflix Series Prompts Manhattan DA to Reinvestigate Malcolm X Assination
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