Malcolm X

Black Americans have long known that rights and protections can be taken away at any time. Facing such uncertainty, they found inspiration in Malcolm X's words.

He challenged the violence of US power, abroad and at home. His radical internationalism, from Congo to Palestine, speaks to our moment.

On the other side of the hardened activist was a man who stirred his coffee with his daughter's finger and told her it made it sweet.

The civil rights leader’s lone poem, written from prison, reveals his love of language — and his quest for truth.

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.