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To listen to hours 1-4 of the Malcolm Lives! special broadcast block from 3-7pm produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Michael Smith, you can follow the following direct links to the station's archive:

Hour 1

From Harlem Streets to Revolutionary Memory — Malcolm Comes Home Again

Hour One opened like a summons from history itself — with the searing cry of poet Louis Reyes Rivera, “Bullet Cry” – were you there, followed by Max Roach’s “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?” and the immortal words of Ossie Davis mourning Malcolm as “our own Black shining prince.”

From there, the program moved into the streets of Harlem — where for more than thirty years the grassroots have gathered to demand respect for Malcolm’s legacy from the commercial powers reshaping and sanitizing Harlem itself.

Led by Roger Wareham of the December 12th Movement, the streets thundered once more with demands for self-determination, reparations, liberation, and the right of Black people to define their own destiny. Malcolm was not remembered as museum history — but restored to the people, to the grassroots, to struggle.

Joining the hour was Zayid Muhammad, chair of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, who lifted up Malcolm’s revolutionary Islam, uncompromising internationalism, and enduring call for liberation by any means necessary.

Threading the entire hour together was our poet laureate of the day, Raymond Nat Turner — whose words moved like jazz, testimony, prophecy, and prayer — weaving together memory, rage, beauty, and resistance into one living tapestry.

Malcolm was not gone. Malcolm was marching beside us.

Hour 2

From the Grassroots to the Gravesite — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Lives

Pan-Africanism, Revolutionary Nationalism, and the Continuing Struggle

Hour Two carried listeners from Harlem’s living streets to the sacred ground where Malcolm rests.For more than fifty years, Prof. James Small has guided pilgrims, organizers, students, and freedom fighters to Malcolm’s gravesite — not as ritual nostalgia, but as political education and spiritual continuation.

Standing there once again, Professor Small demythologized Malcolm while deepening his greatness — grounding him in family, struggle, exile, transformation, Pan-Africanism, revolutionary nationalism, and global anti-colonial resistance. He reminded us that Malcolm’s journey from Malcolm Little to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was not a retreat from struggle, but an expansion of it — from Harlem to Africa, from civil rights to human rights, from protest to international revolution.This was the hour where listeners could feel history breathing. 

Malcolm X lives — in the unfinished freedom struggle. 

Malcolm X lives — wherever people resist empire, racism, colonialism, and exploitation. 

Malcolm X lives — because the conditions he fought still demand transformation.

Hour 3

Malcolm X Then — Malcolm X Now ​“Educate. Agitate. Organize.”

The third hour brought together scholars, lawyers, journalists, organizers, and cultural workers carrying Malcolm’s work forward into the storms of today.

Dr. William Sales and Dr. Abdul Alkalimat served as our revolutionary educators for the hour — applying Malcolm’s analysis to today’s rising authoritarianism, white supremacy, colonial violence, economic exploitation, and the global drift toward fascism. They traced the line from Reconstruction’s destruction to Jim Crow fascism, from COINTELPRO to mass incarceration, from colonial wars abroad to repression at home — insisting Malcolm’s teachings remain essential weapons for political clarity and liberation.

Then came legendary civil rights attorney Flint Taylor, counsel connected to the Malcolm X family’s continuing legal efforts, who brought alive the still-unresolved questions surrounding Malcolm’s assassination, state surveillance, and the family’s ongoing demands for truth, accountability, equal rights, and justice.

And finally, journalist, author, and Harlem cultural guardian Herb Boyd guided us through the annual commemoration at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center.

Featuring voices including Thulani Davis discussing her opera on Malcolm; Marc Lamont Hill raising up his newest work on Palestine and liberation; and Hisham Aidi connecting Malcolm’s legacy to global struggles against racism, empire, and repression.

Together, they carried Malcolm from memory into movement.

Hour 4  [no summary available] 

FINAL BILLBOARD

“Raise Up Our Black Shining Prince”