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In May of 1963 Malcolm X graciously sat down to be interviewed by Fred Hardon in the back room of his family’s home on Dalton Avenue in Los Angeles for his weekly KYTM radio show. In this interview, Malcolm X argued that Black people cannot experience true equality and advocated for either returning to Africa or establishing a separate territory within the United States for Black people to be independent. Malcolm X criticized Martin Luther King Jr.'s approach, arguing that it disarmed Black people by teaching them to love their oppressors and seek integration without first securing economic stability. Malcolm also stressed the importance of human rights over civil rights. Finally, Malcolm addressed the trial stemming from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers’ shooting of several members of the Nation of Islam and murder of Ronald Stokes on April 27, 1962. Malcolm highlighted the lack of media coverage and the trial’s significance as a case of police brutality and injustice against Black people.