Today is the 95th birthday of our dear brother, our hero, our leader, Malcolm X.

And on this day, there are four powerful clips that I want to play for you from speeches and interviews and they

are painfully relevant. They are much more relevant than they should be. They were recorded in the early

1960s, but he could have said this yesterday. These clips are as relevant today

as they were when he said them.

I want to give you some context for each of them, talk you through them, but all four

of these speeches and interviews have inspired me across the years, therefore my favorites.

Glad to play them for you.

Let's honor our leaders, let's model our leaders, and today I hope to teach you

something.

This is Sean King and you were listening to

the breakdown.

The breakdown.

The breakdown.

The breakdown. I don't know that any single figure or person in history outside of my own family of course has shaped me more than

Malcolm X and it's in great part because of when he first reached me in life. When I was 15 years old all the way

back in 1995, 25 years ago, it's getting farther or farther away. When I was 15 years old I was brutally

assaulted by a group of racist white students at my high school and I had fractures

in my face and fractures in my ribs and I had fractures in my face and fractures in my ribs and I had a very badly injured

spine and lower back.

I had three spinal surgeries and I missed the rest of my sophomore year and all of my junior year of high school recovering from those injuries and surgeries.

I saw a counselor who diagnosed me with PTSD and I was in a horrible low place and I don't remember

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