Editor’s note: This story contains offensive language. Malcolm X’s bases of operations were generally Harlem, Chicago and the Northeast. He rarely ventured South, but there was one memorable trip to ...
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Malcolm X: Unconquered still

This week, in this year’s Black History Month, it is fitting to remember iconic African-American leader Malcolm X. At the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York City, on 21 February, 1965, just as he ...
At a time when the federal government is conducting a radical erasure of Black history in the name of fighting diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and school libraries are banning books about ...
If you were around in the early ’90s you saw a whole lot of baseball caps emblazoned with a simple capital “X.” They marked an ingenious marketing stroke on the part of filmmaker Spike Lee, who would ...
NEW YORK | Activists, actors and politicians gathered Saturday in New York City to honor civil rights leader Malcolm X with a ceremony at the Harlem site where he was assassinated 50 years ago. About ...
In his brief and tumultuous life, Malcolm X took on so many identities that it can be hard to know which version someone is talking about when they cite his legacy. In one of his earliest incarnations ...
The journalist Mark Whitaker tracks the afterlife and influence of one of the 20th century’s most famous agitators. By Brandon M. Terry Brandon M. Terry is a professor of social sciences at Harvard ...
Monday is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X, a civil rights activist, minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was loved and respected by many but feared and hated by many ...
On a special episode (first released on February 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: This year marks 60 years since of the assassination of Malcolm X, a civil rights leader who pierced the consciousness ...
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America" (to be published May 13 by Simon & ...
The National Book Award-winning author shows young readers a humane political philosophy that many adults still fail to appreciate. Back cover illustration for “Malcolm Lives!”Credit...Manon Biernacki ...
On the 100th birthday of Malcolm X, we speak with one of his daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, and civil rights attorney Ben Crump as they continue to press the U.S. government for answers about his ...