92 YEARS OF MALCOLM X!
THE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO THE GRAVESITE OF MALCOLM X AND MORE!
On Friday, May 19th, the world will come to New York to observe the 92nd birth anniversary of Malcolm X!
The central activity for that historic observation will be the annual pilgrimage to his gravesite. The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee (MXCC) and the Sons of Afrika will again co-host the Organization of Afro-American Unity’s (OAAU) Annual Pilgrimage to his Gravesite!
At 9am, participants will assemble at the Harlem State Office Building located at 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard to prepare to caravan to Malcolm’s gravesite at Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley, NY. The bus and car caravan will leave Harlem promptly at 9:30am for the Cemetery!
Tickets for the busses going up to the Cemetery are $9 for adults and $4 for children. Families and groups wishing to ride should call in advance to make reservations at 718 512 5008 or email at mxcc519@verizon.net.
The gravesite ceremony was conceived and developed shortly after his death by the late Ella Little-Collins, Malcolm’s older sister who was with him in the OAAU. The organization has faithfully maintained this pilgrimage on an annual basis through the leadership of Baba James Small for nearly 50 years!
In 1993, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, under the leadership of the late Baba Herman Ferguson, a founding member of the OAAU and former political prisoner himself, made a commitment to grow the pilgrimage. Since then, the pilgrimage has grown exponentially, drawing participants from all along the northeast coast from Boston to Washington, DC. For example, Washington DC chapter of the National Black United Front, led by Salim Adofo, has already announced its plans to return with a bus load!
Other key activities of the day will include the closing down of stores on 125th Street and memorial observation forums at the Shabazz Center and at the Schomburg.
“We are very proud of our role in growing the pilgrimage,” said Zayid Muhammad, MXCC’s founding press officer…
In other related matters, MXCC chair Dequi Kioni Sadiki was given the honor to write a new introduction to the soon to be reissued Black revolutionary classic ‘Look For Me In The Whirlwind:The Collective Autobiography Of The Panther 21!’ The book originally came out as an effort to humanize the members of the NY chapter of the Black Panther Party as they were demonized in the press when faced with conspiracy charges. The story of the NY 21 is both heroic and tragic. They were acquitted on all counts of all the charges they faced. Their acquittal was angrily met with an expansion of COINTELPRO counterinsurgency including the infamous NEWKILL Operations that further criminalized the Party in NY and is responsible for a number of Panthers still being in prison more than four decades later!
Press officer Zayid Muhammad will participate in several forums and teach-ins observing the anniversary on May 15th in NYC, in Newark onMay 18th and at the Memorial Observation at the Shabazz Center on May 19th.Details are forthcoming. He will soon go to press also with his poetic tribute to Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party entitled ‘We Ride: For Malcolm, The Black Panther Party And Those Who Dare To Heir!’
For more information about the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, please call 718 512 5008 or email us mxcc519@verizon.net... ‘Like’ us on Facebook…
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THE MALCOLM X COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE
PO BOX 380-122, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11238
718-512-5008 mxcc519@verizon.net
“We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator…
Once we all realize that we have a common enemy,
then we unite, on the basis of what we have in common…"
then we unite, on the basis of what we have in common…"
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