Malcolm X’s Murder Case To Be Reviewed Post Netflix Documentary ‘Who Killed Malcolm X?’

The Manhattan District Attorney said he was reviewing the 1965 murder case of civil rights activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz or better known as ‘Malcolm X’ after a documentary series raised questions about the convicts in the case.

On Thursday, Cyrus Vance Jr. said he was reviewing the activist’s case after the Netflix documentary series “Who Killed Malcolm X?” raised questions about the murder, reports Efe news.

“Vance has met representatives from the Innocence Project and associated counsel regarding this matter,” the Attorney’s spokesman Danny Frost said in a statement, adding that the district attorney would begin a preliminary review and inform the office about what steps can be taken.

The review occurs as the streaming platform recently began broadcasting the documentary series to mark Black History Month in the US.

Malcolm X was killed on February 21, 1965 while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York.

About a year before his murder, Malcolm X had left the political and religious movement Nation of Islam, from whose members he later received death threats.