50 years ago this week, on August 27, 1971, the legendary feud between Fred Blassie and John Tolos could no longer be contained by Los Angeles’ Grand Oly.
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Members of Malcolm X’s family have released to the public a letter written by a deceased police officer, stating that the New York Police Department and FBI were behind the 1965 killing of the famed black activist and civil rights advocate.
Malcolm X was a powerful orator who rose to prominence as the national spokesman of the Nation of Islam, an African-American Muslim group that espoused black separatism.
He spent more than a decade with the group before becoming disillusioned and publicly breaking with it in 1964. He moderated some of his earlier views on the benefits of racial separation.