Next Stop: Malcolm X Boulevard

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Next Stop: Malcolm X Boulevard

By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsOn Friday, August 30, 1985, Sonny Carson led members of the Committee to Honor Black Heroes in a ceremony to celebrate the renaming of Reid Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to “Malcolm X Boulevard.” Joining the Committee was Malcolm X’s widow, Dr. Betty Shabazz. Now, almost forty years later, a movement […]

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