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SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X: CLAIMING SHARED HISTORIES AND SHARED STRUGGLES

  • Maysles 343 Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10027 United States (map)

IN CINEMA

Tuesday, May 20th at 7PM
Co-presented with YURI KOCHIYAMA SOLIDARITY PROJECT

CLAIMING SHARED HISTORIES AND SHARED STRUGGLES: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama

SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X

John Akomfrah, 1993, 52 min.

An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader, SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X collects testimonies, eyewitness accounts and dramatic reenactments to tell the life, legacy, loves, and losses of Malcolm X.

Featuring interviews with Malcolm's widow Betty Shabazz, Spike Lee, and many others, SEVEN SONGS looks for the meaning behind the resurgence of interest in the man whose X always stood for the unknown.

Along with:

79 SPRINGTIMES FOR HO CHI MINH

Santiago Alvarez’s poetic homage to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese anti-colonial leader (who also shares May 19th birthday with Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama).


Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price