Malcolm Lives: Martyrdom, Afterlife, and the Undercommons

This roundtable coincides with the centennial of Malcolm X’s birth. It interrogates the life, spiritual legacy, intellectual resonances, and afterlife of this organic intellectual and globally renowned Black Muslim martyr. Heeding the 2025 AAR call to engage in deliberations that chart pathways to freedom, this roundtable considers how scholars can draw guidance from Malcolm X as we imagine new intellectual and political possibilities for freedom in the face of militarism, war, tyranny, repression, and other global systems of exclusion that continue to haunt our communities.