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Malcolm X house may get makeover

Plan calls for Malcolm X site to house graduate students

By Robert Preer

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 18, 2012

The now run-down Roxbury home where Malcolm X lived in the 1940s would be renovated and turned into housing for graduate students in African-American studies or related fields, under a new agreement signed by a Boston preservationist organization and a nephew of the slain black leader. “This would be great for the family and for Malcolm’s legacy,’’ said Rodnell Collins, 66, whose late mother, Ella Little Collins, owned the house on Dale Street and was Malcolm’s half-sister.

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