The man who killed the African-American rights activist and Muslim minister Malcolm X in 1965 is to be released from prison next month after being turned down for parole 16 times.
Thomas Hagan, a black Muslim, has been on work release for more than two decades but still has to spend two days a week at a low-security prison in New York. He is tentatively scheduled to be released on 28 April.
Mr Hagan, 69, a former member of the militant Nation of Islam, shot Malcolm X, one of the movement's leaders, while the latter was giving a speech in Manhattan.
Unlike Martin Luther King, the Baptist minister who sought to end segregation in the United States through civil disobedience, Malcolm X rejected the civil rights movement's strategy of nonviolence. Critics accused him of preaching black supremacy, anti-Semitism and violence.
Malcolm X in 1964
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Definately not gonna, I know enough about him to knw that his role in American history is being down played for a reason. He's my hero and NO he was no Hater!
Read his book, the autobiography, find out what he was all about. Don't take this publishers word for it.
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