“If you’re black you were born in jail,” said Malcolm X, the Black nationalist leader whose spirit of resistance spoke to people worldwide. Reviled by white America during the Civil Rights era, after his assassination in 1965, many viewed him as a prophetic revolutionary. This year marks one hundred years from his birth, and his global legacy still has a lasting impact.

Join WritersMosaic for Malcolm X: By any means necessary, an evening marking the revolutionary’s centenary at the British Library on Friday 7 March, 19:00–20:45.

WritersMosaic director Colin Grant will be joined by award-winning author and journalist Gary Younge, former Bristol City Poet Vanessa Kisuule, and esteemed playwright and novelist Bonnie Greer. There will also be a performance from Guinean musician Falle Nioke.