My style of governance, which would be to be strong and compassionate. The battle between a democrat known as mayor 1 , rahm emanuel and a host of challengers has reached a fever pitch in chicago ahead of tuesdays mayoral election. We will speak with Rick Perlstein chicagobased reporter, author of how to sell off a city. Then this weekend memorials are the 50th anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. We will speak with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. The history of unpunished violence against our people indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent racist mob. And now with so many injustices happening, with people saying, yes black lives matter too, we get to revisit oh, here was this man who actually reacted to the violence that was perpetrated against his people. And he wasnt a man of violence. By far, he was a man of integrity, a man of courage impeccable integrity. Malcolm xs daughter Il
Reached a fever pitch in chicago ahead of tuesdays mayoral election. We will speak with Rick Perlstein chicagobased reporter, author of how to sell off a city. Then this weekend memorials are the 50th anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. We will speak with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. The history of unpunished violence against our people indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent racist mob. And now with so many injustices happening, with people saying, yes black lives matter too, we get to revisit oh, here was this man who actually reacted to the violence that was perpetrated against his people. And he wasnt a man of violence. By far, he was a man of integrity, a man of courage impeccable integrity. Malcolm xs daughter Ilyasah Shabazz will join us in studio. Her oped in the New York Times headlined, what would malcolm x think . All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now