El Hajj Malik El Shabazz: the Continuity and Legacy of a Critical Africana Human Rights Consciousness
This article places El Hajj Malik El Shabazz's praxis, as well as the Africana [Black] movement for freedom, into a human rights discourse. Exploring his evolution into an internationalist activist theoretician in five rhythmic movements, if you will, the opening the transitioning the solidification the influencing and the continuities it is the central premise of this article that in order to truly grasp the breadth and depth of the Africana [Black] struggle for freedom we must explore those involved and their contributions as a product of a critical human rights consciousness. Accordingly, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz becomes an archetype in this regard. This idea rests upon the assertion that his praxis, albeit incomplete, due to his untimely death, represents an important nexus in the Africana struggle for freedom, merging various manifestations of radical praxis into a clearer articulation of the Black radical tradition.