Nobody Can Give You Freedom

To mark 100 years since Malcolm’s birth  Make it Plain and  Michael Ellis Films  present ‘Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Real Mission of Malcolm X. Kehinde Andrews takes you on a journey, based on his book of the same name, to bust the myths surrounding Malcolm and to pick up his true legacy. Starting in Birmingham, where Malcolm visited just 9 days before he was killed, he speaks to his parents Carole and Maurice Andrews about the impact of Malcolm on Black Power in Britain. He then travels down to the London School of Economics, to the Old Theatre, the site of one of Malcolm’s last international speeches, to speak to George the Poet Dr Olivia Rutazibwa about the relevance of Malcolm today.

To uncover Malcolm’s true mission, we travel to Harlem, to the neighbourhood where Malcolm became the figure we remember today to visit the archives at Columbia University and for his first visit to the Malcolm X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial Centre, which is the old Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm was killed. Here he interviews Malcolm’s third daughter Ilyasah Shabazz, Dr Jared Ball, Marc Lamon Hill, Ben Crump, and JoAnna LeFlore-Ejike Returning to the UK, Kehinde highlights the work of Sayce Holmes-Lewis and Mentivity, and talks to a group of young people about the relevance of Malcolm today. None of this is an academic exercise.

We are building Harambee OBU based on Malcolm’s vision of the OAAU. Join the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ Sign up for the Convention of Afrikan People https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/

In the UK you can order the book at: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460078/nobody-can-give-you-freedom-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241681176

In the US the book drops on September 9th https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kehinde-andrews/nobody-can-give-you-freedom/9781645030706/?lens=bold-type-books

Written and produced by Kehinde Andrews Directed by Michael Ellis