Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam spent more than 20 years in prison after the civil rights leader was assassinated in 1965. He had broken with the Nation of Islam.
Source: New York Times
New York to Pay $26 Million to Men Wrongly Convicted of Killing Malcolm X
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