Civil rights activists and Freedom Riders were viewed as troublemakers. Nine months after Malcolm X’s assassination, “The ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The son of Malcolm X’s biographer is asking Syracuse University to hand over a letter in which the slain activist writes about his shifting views on race relations, claiming his ...

Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture recently won the bid for a missing chapter from X's autobiography as well as a manuscript for the book containing notes exchanged between X and ...

Grandma's Boy -- The Cook Who Writes -- People on the Way Up -- The Fearsome Black Demagogue -- Marked Man -- Before This Anger -- The American Griot -- The Black Family Bible -- Pop Triumph -- Roots ...

Norton finished a first draft of the show in 2023. In 2024, Fayetteville audiences saw a staged reading of the show during ...

Kirk has left an even richer video and audio trove to be mined for posterity—by critics who want to remind the world of his ...

Murphy was in talks to portray author Alex Haley in the Norman Jewison-helmed version before Spike Lee took over directing, with Washington as the titular civil rights icon. “They were talking about ...

With roots in Georgia, Nebraska and Grenada in the Caribbean, human rights advocate Malcolm X spanned the globe to become a vocal supporter of Black social and political awareness and a renowned ...

During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood,” Murphy revealed he bumped into Poitier and brought up that he had been approached to play Alex Haley ...

Hundreds gathered at Malcolm X College on Monday to celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of its namesake and to honor the legacy of the Black leader and civil rights activist. “Everyone ...