The family of the late civil rights activist Malcolm X filed a $100 million federal lawsuit against the FBI, CIA and New York Police Department in connection with his death, 60 years after his assassination.
In a press conference on Friday, Nov. 15, Ilyasah Shabazz and her sister Qubilah Shabazz were joined by attorney Ben Crump and his legal team on behalf of the revolutionary Muslim minister (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz), who was shot and killed on Feb. 21, 1965, at the age of 39.
“We believe that they all conspired to assassinate Malcolm X, one of the greatest thought leaders of the 20th century,” said Crump, as reported by Reuters.
While discussing the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, Crump expressed hope that federal and city officials would read it “and learn all the dastardly deeds that were done by their predecessors and try to …