Malcolm X

In 1964, he toured Africa and the Middle East on a journey that would both transform his outlook and reveal the limits of transnational solidarity.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was the fateful moment that the wave of hope finally broke for Black America.

A look into how Malcolm X employed gospel rhetoric to critique the mainstream civil rights movement for catering to white Christianity.

Can a system built on racial violence actually deliver justice?

Reflections on "A Love Supreme," artistic transformation, and the Black Arts Movement.

"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.

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder.

Decades before protests against mass incarceration galvanized the black freedom struggle, Malcolm indicted the entire justice system as racist.

What we can learn from him and his legacy.

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 influential activist was a strong proponent of Pan-Africanism.

The history behind the photographs on Colin Kaepernick’s T-shirt.

Malcolm X died fifty-one years ago today, just as he was moving toward revolutionary ideas that challenged oppression in all its forms.

An excerpt from a discussion between Malcolm X and Robert Penn Warren on guilt and innocence.

From white supremacists to black activists, readers have sought moral legitimacy in Milton’s epic poem.

“This isn’t about being for one group or against another. It’s about basic human rights.”

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?