New York, NY. –– Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump will hold a Friday news conference to announce the filing of a lawsuit on behalf of Malcolm X’s family. The lawsuit alleges that various government agencies and individuals, including the FBI, CIA, and NYPD, played a role in the conspiracy leading to Malcolm X’s assassination and engaged in a decades-long cover-up that deprived his family of justice. The suit seeks accountability for the harm caused by the alleged unlawful and unconstitutional actions of these agencies and individuals.
Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, at age 39 while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom. He was shot a total of 21 times by a group of men in front of his wife and daughters.
WHO:
Family of Malcolm X
Attorney Ben Crump
Attorney Ray Hamlin
Attorney Flint Taylor
Attorney Jonathan Moore
WHEN:
Friday, November 15, 2024, at 9 AM ET
WHERE:
The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center
3940 Broadway
New York, NY 10032
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ABOUT BEN CRUMP LAW
Through his work, nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump has spearheaded a legal movement to better protect the rights of marginalized citizens. He has led landscape-changing civil rights cases and represented clients in a wide range of areas including civil rights, personal injury, labor and employment, class actions, and more. Ben Crump Law is dedicated to holding the powerful accountable. For more information, visit bencrump.com.
ABOUT THE PEOPLE’S LAW OFFICE
The People’s Law Office, (PLO) founded in Chicago in 1969, has, since its inception, been dedicated to fighting for human rights and against racism and white supremacy. Flint Taylor, one of the founding members of the PLO, was one of the lead attorneys in the historic Fred Hampton, Black Panther case which, over 13 years of intense litigation, including an 18-month federal civil rights trial, established that the FBI, the Chicago police, and the Cook County State’s Attorney conspired to assassinate Hampton and to cover up their crimes. Taylor and his partners have also fought for the past 35 years to expose systemic Chicago police torture and were instrumental in obtaining reparations for scores of torture survivors. Lawyers from the PLO were also instrumental in the decades-long fight in New York state and federal courts defending the Attica Brothers, exposing the truth about the official massacre, and obtaining a measure of compensation for the Brothers.
