MX100 is an interdisciplinary, experimental conference that takes El Hajj Malik El Shabazz’s (Malcolm X) 100th birthday on May 19, 2025, as an occasion to reflect on Malcolm’s intellectual legacy and its continued impact on American culture, Black liberation movements, decolonial thought, and being human. MX100 brings together scholars from disciplines whose expertise includes Black and ethnic studies, religious studies, gender studies, and Islam in America, alongside community leaders, organizers, and artists to identify sites of generative construction, critique, and intervention. Through panels, live performances, a pop-up exhibit at the Beinecke, and a keynote event, we engage students, academics, and the public in a conversation that reflects the dynamism of Malcolm X’s political and religious thought, its academic study, and its impact on society. Ultimately, MX100 gathers to ask: Why Malcolm, and why today?

Sponsored by the Muslim Leadership Lab at Dwight Hall; Whitney Humanities Center; Yale Seminar in Religious Studies; Council on Middle East Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Institute of Sacred Music; Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transmigration; Dean’s Symposium Fund; American Studies; Department of English; Beinecke Library and Material Histories Working Group; Chaplain’s Office; and the Program on Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, with additional support from Kulturally Lit and Possible Futures.