Book Talk: Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything “, said Malcolm X, a man who stood for right and truth until the day he died.”  I’m a boxer, and I really don’t want anything to do with the civil rights programs right now “, is what Muhammad Ali said while trying to find out how to become a man in a complex world.                                                                                                                       
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X is a book based on two men who used their friendliness and religious beliefs to help strengthen each other.  But, was that really enough?

Even though both men had similar back ground experiences and the respect for brotherhood, their friendship become toxic the minute Malcolm X was silenced and ousted from the Nation of Islam Muhammad Ali, who believed in and respected Malcolm X was born between his loyalty to Malcolm and Elijah Muhammad.  In the end, Ali chose Elijah Muhammad and said of X after he died, “Malcolm was my friend, and he was the friend of everybody as long as he was a member of Islam.  Now, I don’t want to talk about him no more.”

​Blood Brothers is a book about admiration, loyalty, friendship, respect, doubt, lies, hatred, betrayal, and murder. 
- Gwen Tyus

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