The 2020 Netflix documentary 'Who Killed Malcolm X?' has led to a belated reopening of the investigation into his murder.
, the late historian Manning Marable argues that “a convergence of interests between law enforcement, national security institutions and the Nation of Islam undoubtedly made Malcolm X’s murder easier to carry out”.
Paroled from prison in 1952 after serving time for theft and housebreaking, Malcolm X rose up the organisation’s ranks quite quickly, becoming its national spokesperson and minister of the Harlem mosque in New York. A fiercely intellectual and charismatic autodidact, he grew the membership of the organisation at least tenfold in a relatively short time, quickly earning the supreme favour of the movement’s leader, Elijah Muhammad.
A still from the documentary, showing Talmadge Hayer and Norman 3X Butler , one of the falsely accusedthat their interest in the story was “the notion that the likely shotgun assassin of Malcolm X [the man who delivered the fatal bullet] was living in plain sight in Newark, and that many people knew of his involvement and that he was uninvestigated, unprosecuted, unquestioned”.
Granted, it is hard to keep a viewer interested in endless, consecutive frames of stylised highlights from redacted FBI files, so Abdur-Rahman had to hit the tarmac. The trips to “Mecca” in which Abdur-Rahman interviews several current and erstwhile members of the Newark fold, tell us that the people connected by the “convergence of interests” Marable writes about always knew the depth of these connections and the weight of culpability resting on each node.
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