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The Audubon Ballroom had fallen into disrepair after the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, and by the mid-1970s it had become the property of New York City. In the early 1980s, Columbia University proposed the construction of a modern biotechnology center on the site, a plan that later grew to include a research park . [ 6 ]
Lenox Avenue – also named Malcolm X Boulevard; both names are officially recognized – is the primary north–south route through Harlem in the upper portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. This two-way street runs from Farmers' Gate at Central Park North (110th Street) to 147th Street.
It was at one of those meetings, on February 21, 1965, that Malcolm X was assassinated as he was giving a speech. [2] Because of non-payment of property taxes, New York City took possession of the theatre in 1967.
Shabazz said her late mother "turned a place that represented tragedy into a place of triumph" by establishing the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in New York City ...
It has been 60 years since Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965 in New York City, and his family is calling for the documents in the case to be declassified. "During this Black History ...
Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City, on February 21, 1965, at the age of 39 while preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights.
A man is standing on the vast stage of New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center. ... Met’s new production X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. First staged in 1986, the opera ...
The American public first became aware of Malcolm X in 1957, after Hinton Johnson, [F] a Nation of Islam member, was beaten by two New York City police officers. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] On April 26, Johnson and two other passersby—also Nation of Islam members—saw the officers beating an African American man with nightsticks. [ 86 ]