Sam Cooke, meanwhile, was increasingly making music that courted the white America so riled by Malcolm X and Clay. Kennedy’s assassination amounted to “chickens coming home to roost.” In the wake of the controversy over the remarks, Elijah Muhammad suspended Malcolm from his spokesman role. Months before the Liston fight, Malcolm X, invoking the murder of Medgar Evers and the US-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first democratically elected leader, told the press that John F. As Marqusee put it in Redemption Song, “In the early 60s, Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X were probably the two most hated men in America.” The Nation’s strident message of Black separatism enraged whites and divided Blacks. Here’s what you should know about the true story behind the critically acclaimed film.Ĭlay knew that his association with the Nation could damage his professional prospects.
Powers was inspired to write the play after learning about this historic night in author Mike Marqusee’s Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties. The movie is an adaptation of a 2013 play by Kemp Powers, who also wrote the screenplay and recently served as co-writer and director of Pixar’s Soul. In 1964, friends Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), Sam Cooke (Oscar nominee Leslie Odom Jr.) and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) all spent an evening together in a Miami hotel in a once-in-a-lifetime meeting of legends. And while Oscar nominee One Night in Miami, directed by Academy Award- and Emmy-winning If Beale Street Could Talk and Watchmen star Regina King, is fictionalized, the broader strokes are true. The scenario-four Black legends from the worlds of music, sports, and politics, all gathered at the height of the Civil Rights struggle-seems almost too cinematic to be true.
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