Two men who worked security for Malcolm X in the days before he was assassinated said Wednesday that NYPD cops used false arrests to lure them from his side — thus giving his killers a clear target.

Lawyers for the family of Malcolm X have filed a $100 million lawsuit against the U.S. government, Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and the NYPD for conspiring to allow the assassination of the ...

Malcolm X, then Malcolm Little, at age 18, at the time of an arrest for larceny, police photograph front and profile in Boston. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ...

Malcolm X‘s family is filing a lawsuit against several government entities saying several agencies played a key role in his assassination in 1965. The complaint, filed by Malcolm X’s daughters ...

Mohammad Aziz, who was exonerated in killing Malcolm X, reflects on the shadow the wrongful conviction cast on his life in an ABC News "Soul of a Nation" special.

On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, ... “Oh, they were conspiring to bomb the Statue of Liberty, so we have to arrest them.” And so, ...

Fifty-nine years to the day after civil rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated in a New York ballroom, attorneys representing his family presented sworn statements from two men implicating ...

Aziz under arrest for allegedly killing Malcolm X. The city will pay $26 million and New York state will pay $10 million for the wrongful conviction. AP.

Malcolm X, one of the most powerful voices in the fight against racism in the nation, ... Aziz, a US Navy veteran, was 26 and a father of six children at the time of his arrest, ...

He was indeed. Seven months later, Malcolm X was murdered at a rally on February 21, 1965. Yet, as I chronicle in my book, "The Afterlife of Malcolm X" (to be published May 13 by Simon & Schuster ...