50 Years Ago Today Malcolm X Was Invited To Berkeley

The family of Malcolm X has launched a lawsuit to stop the publication of a diary of the late civil-rights leader's last year.

The Diary of Malcolm X, a reproduction of a private diary kept as he travelled to the Middle East and Africa immediately before his assassination, is due to be published this week, according to Third World Press, a Chicago-based company. The publisher lists one of the leader's six daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, as a co-editor.

But in papers filed to Manhattan federal court, according to the Associated Press, heirs to Malcolm X say Third World Press does not have the right to publish it.