Word: malik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pillows piled at the head of his bed. The woman bent further forward, kissed him on the cheek and then walked over to the jail ward's wire-mesh door. As a red headed state policeman negotiated the lock, the young woman looked back at the bed where Malik Hakim, torn tendons in both his legs, lay. Hakim touched his dark, long-fingered hands together, and inclined his head towards them and her with an air of silent benevolence...
...plainclothesmen drew their guns. It is not clear whether or not they also identified themselves at this point. In any event. Hakim fled from their guns, and the receptionist raced into the room where the meeting was going on. She screamed. "There's some white men trying to shoot Malik." By this time, the people in the room had caught up with the chase. Hakim was lying injured outside under the eyes of a dozen policemen. He had been placed under arrest on two charges--violation of parole and the rape of a white woman...
...Malik Hakim was born in the joint...
Then again, it isn't every black man in prison who has had the same experience Malik Hakim had when he received a visit from Malcolm X in 1957. "To meet Malcolm for the first time in the life of a black man, to have been deaf, dumb and blind, is like walking into a totally pitch black room and someone turns on a million-watt light bulb. It was probably the most beautiful, the most painful experience I've ever had. Look at it like this. Christians pray to Jesus and if Jesus walked into their rooms they would...
...Malik Hakim was arrested by the FBI on a federal parole violation warrant. Hakim had recently applied for a passport so that he could travel to Europe to study the Montessori system of education. Hakim had not been overly-enthusiastic about leaving Boston and the Foundation, but felt that the trip might produce some valuable knowledge...