Sixty years ago on this day February 21st in 1965, Brother Malcolm (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) was assassinated.
Though doubts about who is responsible for Malcolm X’s assassination have existed since he was fatally shot at Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965, a Netflix docuseries and new evidence have brought renewed scrutiny to the case.
In 2021, former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. vacated the convictions of two of the men jailed for Malcolm X’s murder, Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, after a nearly two-year investigation unearthed fresh evidence of witness intimidation and suppression of evidence.
The city and state of New York later agreed to pay $36 million to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of the men, and Vance apologized for law enforcement’s “serious, unacceptable violations of law and the public trust.”
