[3][6] After graduating from high school in 2011, London began working for Kevin Coval, a fellow poet and educator who helped create the Louder Than A Bomb poetry festival.
London was paid to help with the organization Young Chicago Authors, talking at local schools and running poetry workshops with students in the area.
[9] In late 2015 a woman named Kyra published an open letter on Facebook alleging that she was sexually assaulted by Malcolm London in her sleep three years prior.
[10] London agreed to a community accountability process with Black Youth Project 100, Kyra, and Mariame Kaba which began in November 2015.
[13] Subsequently, the survivor from the 2015 community accountability process, Kyra, and one of the facilitators, Mariame Kaba, posted public comments expressing their sorrow, anger, and disappointment that London had continued to harm people.
This led to investigations by Chicago Reader that chronicled over 20 years of survivors' accounts of abuse by predators affiliated with YCA.