Alex Haley

Alex Haley’s transcript of his famous 'Playboy' interview with Martin Luther King Jr. does not match what was published.

The famous author, who would have been 100 years old today, was best known for his novels and essays. But correspondence was where his light shone brightest.

We're born with a hunger for connection with our ancestors – both biological and spiritual.

"A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is always a longing to know who you are and where you come from.”

Its title, 'The Negro', seemed innocuous enough. But Malcolm X intended it to invoke a much harsher meaning.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

The ‘methods and collections’ of genealogists are political because they have a great deal in common with genealogy as a way of doing history.

A new book tells the definitive history of an Alabama community founded by survivors of the slave trade.

In "A Nation of Descendants," Francesca Morgan traces the American use and abuse of genealogy from the Daughters of the American Revolution to Roots.

Can a system built on racial violence actually deliver justice?

"The Dead are Arising" may be the best Malcolm X biography yet. But its author seems unsure of how to write about a religion outside the American mainstream.

In the turbulent 1970s, the balm of pop cultural nostalgia set the tone for today's political reaction.

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?

What we can learn from him and his legacy.