This book lives up to the promise made my Malcolm's nephew, who wrote the book: you will learn things about Malcolm in this book that are not in any other written about him, including his autobiography.

You definitely understand Malcolm in the full spectrum of his person-hood. He was a father, a nephew, a brother, a cousin, a friend. He was much beloved by many and had a smile that lit up a room.

He was a also a very deeply and well-connected national and international political activist. And he was assassinated for it. We think that he was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam, but his sister, Ella, one of his closes confidantes (and one of only four women he trusted in his entire life) shared that Malcolm knew it was the CIA.

Shortly before his death, he was building steam in bringing charges against the U.S. Government before the World Court for violating the human rights of, at that time, some 22 million African Americans. He had a long list of all the lynchings and murders and other brutalities committed against African Americans with no charges against the white terrorists committing the crimes.

He made plain the connection between white supremacy here in the U.S. and colonialsim in Africa and Asia.

I even learned that he was murdered before he finished writing his autobiography with Malcolm X and that Alex Hailey left out five chapters that Malcolm wrote on his political, social, and economic views (which thankfully are outlined in the Organization of Afro-American Unity -- OAAU).

If you really want to see the human side of Malcolm, this is a book you need to read. I think I will go back now and read his autobiography, as certain things were made clear in this book about things Malcolm wrote about in his book.

Excellent read.