Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Alston tolitere n'ime obodo Plainfield, New Jersey, nke ọ kọwara dị ka, n'oge ahụ, "Niggertown nwere omenala na ọdịnala nile nke ịkpa ókè agbụrụ, ịkpa ókè n'etiti nwoke na nwanyị na enweghị ike". Alston dị afọ iri na otu mgbe e gburu Malcolm X na afọ iri na atọ mgbe e gburu
1967 Newark riots, ihe abụọ a mere na nso obodo ya Plainfield. N'ajụjụ ọnụ a gbara ya n'afọ 2010, Alston kwuru na ya echetaghị ọnwụ Malcolm X n'afọ 1965, mana ọ malitere ịghọta ihe nketa Malcolm dị ka nnupụisi mere na United States niile na 1967. Alston kọwara mmetụta nke ịhụ akwụkwọ edemede nke nwanne ya nwoke nke okenye nke Malcolm X nke nwere ndepụta okwu "onye bụbu onye na-ere ahịa, onye na-eme ihe ike, onye ohi, onye ghọrọ onye ndu nke Black Revolution", nke gosipụtara ya na "ndị sitere n'ụdị ndabere ahụ nwere ike ịrụ ọrụ dị egwu na mgba ahụ". O chetakwara etu ịhụ nnupụisi nke Plainfield na 1967 si nye ya "echiche nke ndị nwoke na ndị nwanyị ojii na-arụ ọrụ dị ka ndị dike n'obodo anyị na-agbagha akụkọ ifo nile banyere anyị ịbụ 'ndị ojii,' na ihe ndị ọzọ".