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In his latest project, Ibram X. Kendi is on a mission to help the next generation know and understand the work of Malcolm X.
Sixty years after he was assassinated, the activist’s legacy lives on. Magnum photographer Eve Arnold documented his work and ...
Malcolm X converted to the Nation of Islam, began educating himself and was “utterly transformed” while he was in prison for robbery from 1946 to 1952, historian David Garrow said.
Malcolm X’s daughters have accused the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department, and others in a $100 million lawsuit of having a role in the 1965 assassination of their father. AP.
Malcolm X’s analysis of race relations in the 1960s and his ability to “speak truth to power” continue to engage us in a larger conversation about the political landscape in America.
"By any means necessary": He saw violence as a tool of resistance against the oppression of Black people. Malcolm X, who was born 100 years ago, remains an icon of the Black civil rights movement.
As the 100th year of Malcolm X’s birth is recognized, journalist Mark Whitaker’s new book explores how the once-feared activist evolved into a revered cultural icon.
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker, author of "The Afterlife of Malcolm X," looks at how the charismatic and defiant Black leader's influence has grown in the ...
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, largely known as Malcolm X, was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925. The honorable Malcolm X was an activist who fought fiercely for Black dignity, equality, and justice ...
Malcolm X was responding to Gloria Owens, the sister of Maceo X, Owens, secretary at Elijah Muhammad’s Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, New York, where Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan preached.
But Malcolm X, who was assassinated in 1965 shortly after breaking with the Nation of Islam, never really went out of style. This is the argument that drives “The Afterlife of Malcolm X ...