Ilyasah Shabazz

What starts as a desperate attempt to defy the white world that killed his father and locked his mother away turns dangerous as Malcolm Little immerses himself in the world of reefer, jazz, and women, heading down an increasingly violent path that will guarantee him a place in civil rights history.

While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.