Editing Malcolm X

{{Infobox politician|name=El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz|native_name=الحاج مالك الشباز|image_size=200|birth_name=Malcolm Little|death_date=February 21, 1965|birth_date=May 19, 1925|death_place=New York City, New York, United States|birth_place=Omaha, Nebraska, [[United States of America|United States]]|political_line=[[Anti-capitalism]]<br>[[Anti-racism]]<br>[[Black nationalism]]<br>[[Pan-Africanism]]|death_cause=Assassination|image=Malcolm X.png}}

'''Malcolm X''' (born '''Malcolm Littl'''e, later '''El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz'''; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was a black nationalist and revolutionary in the United States. After leaving prison, Malcolm became a minister for the [[Nation of Islam]] (NOI).<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=It’s not that complicated: Malcolm X was a revolutionary|date=2014-07-02|url=https://liberationschool.org/its-not-that-complicated-malcolm-x-was-a-revolutionary/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512024154/https://liberationschool.org/its-not-that-complicated-malcolm-x-was-a-revolutionary/|archive-date=2021-05-12|retrieved=2022-08-28}}</ref> Following his pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm's disagreements with the Nation and its leader, [[Elijah Muhammad]], culminated into his departure from the NOI. In the later stages of his life, he changed his name to Malik Shabazz and founded the the [[Organization of Afro-American Unity]] in an attempt to create a dialogue between the [[African diaspora]] and [[Africa|mainland]] to consolidate stronger Afro-American ties with the African continent.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]|title=The missing chapter in Malcolm X’s Biography they hid from you|date=2022-01-17|url=https://mronline.org/2022/01/17/the-missing-chapter-in-malcolm-xs-biography-they-hid-from-you/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702043635/https://mronline.org/2022/01/17/the-missing-chapter-in-malcolm-xs-biography-they-hid-from-you/|archive-date=2022-07-02|retrieved=2022-08-28}}</ref> He viewed the [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945–1975)|Vietnamese]] [[National Liberation Front of South Vietnam|resistance]] against the [[Republic of Vietnam (1955–1975)|U.S. occupation]] as a global struggle against [[imperialism]], [[colonialism]], and [[neocolonialism]].<ref>{{Web citation|date=2023-05-19|title=Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, ¡presente! − a WW statement|url=https://www.workers.org/2023/05/71039/|newspaper=[[Workers World]]}}</ref>