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 ...
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 ...
On this day 100 years ago, the man who would become Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Neb. His message and legacy continues to outrage some and inspire many. One hundred years ago today, Malcolm Little was ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Tamara Payne and her father the late ...
"What do you think you would do after 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow and lynching? Do you think you would respond nonviolently?" Those were some of the key questions Malcolm X posed to American ...
"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 ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul renamed a Central Park subway station after Malcolm X, the prominent civil rights leader who was a longtime Harlem resident, as part of the city’s Harlem Week celebration.
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 ...
NEW YORK — Charles Yu's "Interior Chinatown," a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Tamara Payne and her father the late Les ...