{"id":33142,"date":"2025-02-12T20:33:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/malcolm-xs-visit-to-west-midlands-to-be-remembered-in-mural\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T20:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:33:26","slug":"malcolm-xs-visit-to-west-midlands-to-be-remembered-in-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/malcolm-xs-visit-to-west-midlands-to-be-remembered-in-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm X\u2019s visit to West Midlands to be remembered in mural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Street art will mark 60 years since US civil rights leader\u2019s trip to Smethwick shortly before his assassination<\/p>\n<p>It was a moment that united the US civil rights movement with the anti-racist movement in Britain, helping to change the country \u2013 and to mark its 60th anniversary it will be commemorated with a mural.<\/p>\n<p>On 12 February 1965, the black American activist Malcolm X visited Smethwick, in the West Midlands after what is remembered as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/oct\/15\/britains-most-racist-election-smethwick-50-years-on\">the most racist election campaign the UK has ever seen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/12\/malcolm-x-visit-smethwick-midlands-60th-anniversary-mural\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street art will mark 60 years since US civil rights leader\u2019s trip to Smethwick shortly before his assassination It was a moment that united the US civil rights movement with the anti-racist movement in Britain, helping to change the country \u2013 and to mark its 60th anniversary it will be commemorated with a mural. On &#8230; <a title=\"Malcolm X\u2019s visit to West Midlands to be remembered in mural\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/malcolm-xs-visit-to-west-midlands-to-be-remembered-in-mural\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Malcolm X\u2019s visit to West Midlands to be remembered in mural\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}