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This week marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, the African American leader whose uncompromising vision of Black separatism inspired some while terrifying others. Born Malcolm Little, he disavowed his “slave name” in favor of X, and later became El Hajj Malik El Shabazz after a pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca. @BBCNews has more on his life, death, incendiary rhetoric, and the lesser-known moderate views he later adopted:

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