The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee (MXCC), partnering with the Community Media Center (CMC) at Rutgers University–Newark’s Express Newark, is launching the first annual Malcolm X Human Rights Film Festival on November 6th and 7th. Individuals can attend the event, held at Express Newark, 54 Halsey Street, with doors opening on Friday at 6pm and Saturday at 12pm.

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The two-day festival will use Malcolm X as an anchor to display the intersections of social justice, human rights, and community activism through documentary and film. Malcolm X was a prominent civil rights leader, revolutionary, and minister who developed the foundations of the Black Power movement. His advocacy included pushing for Black self-determination, exercising voting rights, and decolonizing Africa, framing civil rights issues as broader human rights ones.