Introducing The Tenth Lieutenant
Wed, Sep 27
|Mount Vernon
By David Thompson


Time & Location
Sep 27, 2023, 7:00 PM
Mount Vernon, 252 South 10th Ave, Mount Vernon, NY 10550
About the event
The autobiography of Malcolm X is recommended reading in academic circles from grade school to college, and it is sure to feature in the reading lists of Black Studies Departments across the country. It is a gripping expose of how religion can bring about radical change in an individual’s life, and how the cruel realities of racism in America and harsh racial rhetoric it engendered in response can be transcended to encourage tolerance for differences that exist within the human community. This, without sacrificing the fight for equality and justice was Malcolm X’s terminal position. Malcolm X was known for calling a spade a spade. In so doing, he established a public platform constantly at odds with a system that perpetuated many of the flagrant as well as the more subtle wrong doings of a white racist society. Even now, racism is so engrained that the need for the struggle…