On Tuesday evening, around 20 San Francisco State University students and community members attended the Black Student Union’s final event this semester, the Malcolm X Mural Celebration. The event served two purposes: to honor Malcolm X’s legacy and to recognize the late Rev. Arnold Townsend, a local civil rights activist and SFSU alum who participated in the 1968-1969 Third World Liberation Front Strike. Alvin Jackson, a second-year cinema student, researched the Malcolm X mural for two months so he could provide attendees with an extensive history of the artwork and its significance to the campus community. According to Alvin Jackson, the progression from left to right represents Malcolm X’s spiritual evolution. The upper left shows him at a 1963 Harlem rally while the lower right depicts him in Ghana the following year with a book, symbolizing self-education. His Muslim faith is represented with a ring that says “Allah” in Arabic. “This mural is a declaration: we are here, we mat...