Malcolm X : Boston Street Legends 

Been on this channel all day today learning more about Boston’s history. Malcolm’s young life in Roxbury is rarely talked about. Glad you took the time to dive in and present another great video.

Wow! PBS and A&E can't touch this. Professionally researched and presented. I've lived through over 50 black history months and never learned anything about Malcolm's formative years. Great job! Keep it up.

Wow, I listened and watched from start to finish. Malcolm X trip to Mecca proved that division is something we shouldn't ever accept. This was a good reminder to me, and thanks again.

You're on the right track, bro. Another well put together and research video. Salute 🫡

I'm from Texas .. Dallas Fort Worth Area .. I wish someone had these stories about our city !!!! Your city is blessed to have you at least trying to get the information out there with style and grace .. I'm binge watching everything

I love Malcolm X so much. One of the greatest human beings America has ever seen ❤❤

Exactly 💯 Malcolm had above average intelligence, Even the FBI noted that in their dossier, he was doomed once they figured that out.

Just found your channel last weekend when the Black Gangsters of Boston video popped up on my timeline. I see your vision, and like how you roll. Subscribed & will support & watch more of your videos… keep going!

I’ve lived in Mass almost all my life, I’m a proud masshole and I never knew about this bravo. I’m glad this channel was recommended to me

Thank you for posting this. Unfortunately these facts about Malcom X’s early life are not well known. I appreciate all the love (without any prejudice) that you pour into your post. You are a great storyteller, very natural ability to capture our attention. I agree that history always spoke of MLK, but never enough about Malcom X. We learned about Malcom X from our parents n stories told amongst our households. I heard about the “accidental” death of his father. But never in such great detail. I also heard about his mother spending her life in an institution, but again never knowing about the details that placed her there. Please continue to bring great content. I definitely appreciate all the research you put into before you post. The stories resonate with your heart n we feel it.

I'm a white southerner and a descendant of Robert e Lee , but Malcolm x is a hero of mine and when I was in prison at 20 years old his story gave me hope and I agree he isn't taught about enough

The late great EL HAJJ MALIK EL SHABAZZ, My commander and chief.

What can I say my friend you're truly a historian well spoken and intelligent guy I respect you love your content and look forward to watching your channel and content grow, respect and love. Your friend Shane.

What a life Malcom had. Nothing but respect for him. You also did an excellent job narrating this and putting it together. Respect on your name for that….I look forward to watching your other vids!

Really good stuff. Maybe my favorite episode because I never knew much about this guy’s early life and backstory.

Thank you so much for this post!

Excellent works ,I enjoyed the video👌✌️

Malcolm x is one who inspires me most..I look at Malcolm's story same as u...thanks for your words and the video!!

Appreciate you bro. Quality content as always

I never knew of his younger days, Jason, your videos are great keep on doing them.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥂🥂🫡 .. another great one,Jason!!!! Keep going 💪🏽 ✨️

I missed this? This is huge thank you!! I read malcom x hometown is boston i thought mlk but it was malcom thank you BIG J LOVE YOUR CONTENT NEED MORE !!!!!

You have out done your self on this one Jason. One of the most polarizing figures of the 20th century yet his early, early, days are rarely discussed in so much depth. This was really fascinating and enjoyable to watch not to mention i learned some new things about Malcolm X. Nicely done my friend. Your love of history resonates with every piece. Keep em coming !!

Malcom’s story is amazing I currently live in Roxbury and you can still feel the vibes or can tell he was really outside back then 💯

Good stuff as always brotha great video!!

Another good video and another good job!

Thank you sir this was enjoyable

Your research game is crazy! Your obtaining those pics is phenomenal! Been here in Boston whole life, rode overhead trains, wool worth down dudley and I ain't never seen these dam exclusive photos 👏🏾 For some reason I always seem to comment before even watching lol. It's on pause @ 0:52 😂 I feel confident cuz u make nice bangers and I smashed that Like Button👍🏾 Salutes JT ✌🏾

Great story, thanks

excellent drop again

Been waiting for this

Alot of people forget about that part of his life in Boston.

Sir, thank you sooooo much!!!!!

Great Commentary Man, I read the Autobiography Of Malcolm X too and saw the Movie 🎥 when it came out as a Young Adult. What would Malcolm, Dr. King And RFK think of the World 🌎 today in 2023? Good Work Bro', Never give up, Succeed.✊🏾❤️💯

Thank you brother 😊

Everybody that came to Harlem all made History we never expected because we had Legends in the Game everywhere ✌

Par excellence, my man. Bravo 👏 👏 if you do a part 2, you may be interested in doing a video on Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson and his friend Malcolm X. Some footage in discussing their friendship will be found from "Harlem Godfather " on Starz featuring Oscar winner- Forrest Whittaker. 😊

Awesome video Jason, please continue to go further and in depth on your exploration of Malcolm and please produce more informative videos about this true American prophet

Great presentation! I have never seen a full in depth life explanation of of hus life before the nation of islam. Keep up the good work! I watch all your videos your the best!

Malcolm was so intelligent he was a Garveyitte Like his Parents, been in the streets up the block from me on 116th & Lennox & dropped Knowledge that still is Relevant today🙏

Thank You

You're doing some real good and thorough research.. and good job finding all those obscure pictures.. That's the sure fire way to keep and hold your audience's attention.. is to have your video full of visual aides relevant to the video especially pics of the individuals you're discussing.. and love your new intro.., 👌. You're game just keeps getting tighter.. Keep it up, bro.. 🤙

what's up Jason. Over 3000 subscribed congratulations bro

Great vid.

You got keep them videos coming

Great video keep it up

Malcolm is also an American Legend and Champion 🏆✨💯✨🏆

I grew up in Orchard Park in the 70's i walk the same streets visited his home on Dale Street

Bro, you do fantastic history and your presentation skills are on-point !! You’d be a fantastic history professor. C.L.E.P. testing: I feel certain you could ‘test out’ of heaps of required classes and just plow through multiple degrees.

Love it Awesome and True Talk Facts yo u Got The Real History Of One of Bostons Most Influential Black Men Loke Myself Coming From Roxbury in the late 70s and Early 80s I was only exposed 2White People in School at the Hospital or at the YMCA on Huntington Ave By Northeastern Like so Many Others on all Cultural Sides Most of us Have 2See it and Experience it and I Finally Experienced White People when My Mother Moved 2 Brookline in 82 and We were the 1st Black Family in The Egmont Street Projects that sits right across the street from Boston University and Commonwealth Ave and I can Say My Best and Closest Friend 2this Day since I was 5 He is White and We Have Been Through it all 2Gthr Through Our Great City of Boston and Our State of Massachusetts Like My Brother J-Red Like 2Say all ya Questions are Right Here in Black and White when we would get Questions about our upbringing and where we are From we Learned a lot about Each other's Culture's and a Lot More other's especially when Brookline was the Most Diverse Town on the East Coast and yes I Had My Racial Problems all over the City But at a young age and Some During My Teen years But No Different and Definitely Not any Worst Like The National Media wants everyone 2Believe Boston is Nothing like Other places yo and I Live ya Channel Family u Got Me as a Subscriber Keep Doing what u are doing Jason Love That there is a Real Boston Channel out Here on Real Ish u Got Support and I Definitely will Put Other Boston Family Heads on 2This Channel ❤️‍🩹🙏🙌😉

Man, that was excellent. Good job, brother, thank you. I remember when I was in middle school up in Jersey. Everyone wore the Malcolm XT shirts. He was huge in the 80s and the early 90s don't know what happened. I guess all good things must come to an end. There is way more to the story than that. I can't really get into it on these comments. But excellent job, my friend. Thank you very much and God bless you. Looking forward to more videos in the future.

I read "X" in highschool. Interesting book. I distinctly recall his stories of his gun-toting burglary days in the Beantown streets as well as his prison stint and the nutmeg stories.

Bro u got this right to the T proud of you bro 💯

Anotha Bangahhh kid. This channel gonna blow the Fahk up. Glad I found ya. Premium content.

Roxbury Royalty 🤴🏾 Good Looks My G!

What's up. Nice channel. Massachusetts in the house! 💯 i have a couple podcasts. Would love to have you as a guest. I do one with ex convicts who tell there story and another one pretty much anything Massachusetts. Either way just giving props where props are due. 💯 617

I have a funny story about how my father almost bought the abandoned brick building that Ministe Malcolm lived in. To make it crazy we have the same birthday.😂

62 Dale Street is where he lived , right by MLK Park. It's being renovated now and the last few years.

Good job Jason

A Roxbury native has entered the chat… Boston stand up 👌🏾

Well done

Detroit Red would be an awesome name for a band or group

I’m impressed, very impresssed. Definitely some mispronunciations but as a white kid from Dorchester who’s been around and knows what’s up, I’m thoroughly impressed… A video about the white culture of Boston and our different beefs would be very interesting. Not talking mob shit but like e.g. Dot V Southie beefs or something like that Idk just throwing shit out there bud! 😂 Happy new year and keep up the good work my man…💯

Malcolm could’ve played a mean Joker if he was alive today. Salute to the brother

Brockton in da house! Pearl St.

Do Greenwood street posse in Dorchester. Some very interesting stuff

TRIMMMMINNNSSSSSSS

Thanks for another excellent video as i learned a lot Jason. How about a video about Tony ciulla and his race fixing scam?

I'm a white man whom grew up in johnson projects,blocks from malcolm s mosque,fatherless,I learn much from black friends,leaders,...my people.

Bro x was a God Allah send men long as he was with our n o i

Just like Maya Angelou, i will NEVER forgive Malcolm for giving that speech on that day, he knew what was waiting for him. FBI,NOI,CIA and still went out there.

Actually his father was not murked, he was drunk running missed the street car and while running to jump on it like most folks did, his coat got caught up in the wheels, Malcolm''s older brother talked about the two white officers coming by to take his mom to the hospital and one cop being emotional breaking the news to her. Malcolm was 5 yrs old and was the only one in the family who believed it was foul play.....there was black witnesses on the trolly who saw what happened and that is why the insurance company refused to pay.

Very handsome

😂Great research and presentation

Hey Jason if you never watch hed Hoodlum you should watch it about bumpy johnson

You forgetting about Columbia point projects!! Columbia point dawgs ran the city

I'd be interested and I'm sure others one day if you did a vid on the Boston Strangler. You probably did already 😂 Most think the real dude was never caught just a wannbe 😂 I know your picture and research game would be bananas 😉👏🏾

I didnt know he worked for a brothel. The way ppl made it seem was like he was on street corners looking for tricks

There is some false information in this video. It’s essentially a good video but some of the details given are factually inaccurate. Everyone in Malcolm‘s family didn’t believe their father was killed by the Klan, especially, his older brother Wilfred or his older sister Hilda. Secondly, Malcolm’s oldest sister, Ella Collins was not entirely an upstanding citizen. She had a scam going on herself using real estate in Boston. Her husband was in the streets and that’s where Malcolm learned a lot of the street maneuvers that he ended up doing, from Ella’s husband.

did you just lift this all from the movie or actually read the auto bio? Damn.

This sounds like he watched the spike Lee movie 😂nice play 😂😂

Malcolm x would definitely have not wanted to been commemorated as a Boston street Legend or an american gangster because he left his life behind!!!

Look like shaq son

The black history of Boston is never talked about its crazy how many times people asked me if there were black people in Boston lmao

correction, Malcolm was killed by FBI...

I SAW THIS MOVIE B4 🤔😡🤬😴😴😴

Nation of Islam DID NOT kill him

Seems like he just watched the Malcom x movie & is now telling the story

Sorry, no respect for x, or "Detroit Red." Lansing is not Detroit, far from it. Raised in a middleclass family, with advantages that even most white people didn't have at that time. Didn't want to serve in WW2, because he was "having fun" and selling drugs and had the ways and means coming from his middleclass family to get out of military service, which most black and white Americans didn't have and who served their country bravely during WW2, which was the reason the great president Harry Truman enacted the first Civil Rights legislation since the Civil War era, with the complete desegregation of the entire US military and the US Civil service. "Lansing Red" was selling drugs and having fun at that time, while the insanely cruel Japanese were slaughtering 60 million civilians in China and torturing and killing Allied POW's, and the Nazi's were slaughtering soldiers and civilians especially jews in death camps in Europe. The huge advance in the status of US blacks in the USA that began to happen after WW2 was because of the huge groundbreaking legislation of Trumans new civil rights legislation because of the brave service of black American soldiers during WW2 and black Christian ministers like Lansing Reds father, and MLK. And "x Lansing Red" had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Whatever you say buddy

Hey JT. If you truely love your girls you would have never brought them into this cruel world. Bc they will suffer and die.

The narrator could have said when Earl met his wife he thought she was the most beautiful woman he had ever met, fell in love instantly with her exotic frame and West Indian accent....But, instead all that was reported only 1 minute into the video was "Earl loved pork and she didn't make him any." I know it was in the book, but it wasn't on the first fkn page. I watched a documentary on the Roosevelt family and you wouldn't think FDR and Eleanor ever had a problem as a couple a day in their life. Just because black people are obsessed with toxicity doesn't mean you have to feed it to them all at once. I didn't watch this video but how are you going to begin a story about Malcolm X by basically saying his parents were trash? Remember in telling a Malcolm X narrative there is only one main antagonist.

malcolm x was not even black, he was kind of "black"

Got no problem that when a person learns about my ancestors. I got a problem when you're making money off of them!

No, I lived during that time. MLK actually got things done; he was the real deal. Mx was a despicable grifter.

Malcolm x was intelligent but lacked wisdom. Because, why would he bring children into a world he knew was corrupt and would never change for the better. Unwise. His father was killed, mother put in a insane asylum, foster home, jailed etc. He caused so much pain to his children. At least 5 of the 6 kids he did have capitalized off of his stupidity by not bringing children into the world. If he didn't create children his wife wouldn't had experience death rather accidentally or not by the hand of his grandson. Malcolm X if he really loved us as he said he did, he would of told us not to bring children into cruel world. He himself with his family history should of taught black ppl to be antinatalist. Thus, thier problems would have been resolved. His legacy should be frowned upon and not celebrated bc of the sorrow he brought on his ppl esp his own children. 0 stars for Malcolm X. It was stupid of him to bring kids in a world he KNEW was evil.

Who killed Malcolm X, black ppl. Case closed.

Fight the power.

Man o Man........the black egyptian ethiopian history I know now.....is what Malcom knew in 1960s. I see why he had to be taken out. Because that piece of history shuts down islam overnight. IMMEDIATELY. THE EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK.