Book Of The Month

FIDEL AND MALCOLM X

On September 19, 1960, Fidel Castro and Malcolm X met in the Theresa Hotel in New York City.  History was made that day and Rosemari Mealy captured that larger than life episode which includes photographs in her book Fidel and Malcolm X.  Mealy’s work also shares how she with input from Assata Shakur organized a symposium in Cuba, on this very incident, thirty years after its occurrence. My Brothers and Sisters.  History has a way of recurring because author and activist Rosemari Mealy, my Panther Sister, reminded us all on May 30, 2026 at the Assata Shakur Memorial Service at Riverside Church in New York City how Cuba offered our heroic revolutionary Sister Assata Shakur asylum, enabling her to live out her life outside of an American prison.  These linkages are very important as Cuba is in the news now, threatened with an American invasion, after decades of crippling sanctions.  Fidel and Malcolm had much in common and that solidarity is exceedingly useful in understanding our contemporary moment in time.  So for your summer reading, get a copy of Rosemari’s book and join others who shout “Hands off Cuba.”