Tamara Payne won the National Book Award for a book largely written by her father, Les Payne. It's called The Dead Are Arising, a biography of... Malcolm X Biography Wins National Book Award STEVE ...

Although he’s studied Malcolm X for decades, Ibram X. Kendi, PhD, never thought he’d write a biography about the human rights activist. But when he got the opportunity to collaborate with the Malcolm ...

"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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In a 2023 interview with Biography.com, Eig shared how he discovered this misquotation, the historic ...

Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights 60 years ago. But another key location in his story remains unmarked and largely forgotten: a modest brick house in East ...

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 — Three daughters of Malcolm X have filed a $100-million lawsuit accusing the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil ...

Years ago, Les Payne was a New York newspaper columnist. He was a Pulitzer Prize winner, one of the stars of his paper, Newsday. Occasionally, he wrote a column about Malcolm X. But readers may not ...