The nation of Islam had a whole black world where black people were the center not the margins

where they were the subjective creators not the objectified people.

From WQXR in the Metropolitan Opera,

this is Aria Code.

I'm Rianna Giddens.

The Aria kind of captures the relationship of our community

to the police, to the power structure,

and realize the pain that comes out of that.

Every episode, we look at a single Aria

from every angle so that we can understand it more fully.

Today, it's you want the story,

but you don't want to know. Anthony Davis's X the life in times of

Malcolm X and that's kind of where we find him as this man who's been nearly broken by

society in every way,

even from him when he was little,

because of a system that failed them

and they were never set up to win.

What's the image that comes to mind for you when you think of Malcolm X?

Is it the icon of the civil rights movement in America or a young man thrown in jail for burglary?

Is it a believer who made a peaceful pilgrimage to Mecca or someone

who sparked controversy across racial and religious divides? Is it the fearless speaker who inspired a generation or a man whose assassination sent

shock waves through the movement? For me, it's all of these things.

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