Cuba remembers six decades of the assassination of Malcolm X

Havana, Feb 21 (Prensa Latina) The 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, an Afro-American leader and fighter for the fundamental rights of Afro-descendants, was remembered by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.

February 21, 2025
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In a message released in X, the Cuban Foreign Minister evoked the event and said that six decades later, racism is still a serious institutional and social problem in the United States.

At just 39 years of age, on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot in the city of Harlem (New York), where he was to deliver a speech to members of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. In the Caribbean Island, the meeting held in that same city on September 19, 1960 between the young human rights defender and the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, is especially remembered.

The event took place at the Teresa Hotel, when the revolutionary commander traveled to the North American country to participate in the General Assembly of the United Nations and the authorities of that nation prevented him from staying in Manhattan hotels.

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