B, Special to the AFRO In case you missed it, May 19 of this year marked the day that Malcolm X would have celebrated turning ...
A recent debunking of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous criticism of Malcolm X offers an opportunity to consider the mission ...
May 19: Malcolm X is born Malcolm Little in Omaha ... Nigeria, Ghana, and Saudi Arabia, where he makes a pilgrimage to Mecca and receives a new Islamic name: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, as well ...
To that point, Malcolm X, who was assassinated in 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, spoke about what some considered ...
Malcolm X Day is celebrated annually on May 19 in the United States. It is used to express appreciation for the civil ...
Notorious Black historian Alex Haley faked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s harsh criticism of Malcolm X, playing up their infamous rivalry, a biographer has found. In fact, Jonathan Eig found that ...
Malcolm X was born 98 years ago today, on May 19, 1925, and assassinated at age 39 on February 21, 1965, as he spoke before a packed audience in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. We end today ...
The author of a new biography about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. unravels the story of how one fabricated quote perpetuated a story that King and fellow civil rights leader Malcolm X were ...
This new information adds to the ongoing rethinking of the relationship between King and Malcolm X. Changing the way we consider their relationship helps us to reconsider the era that shaped both ...
The resolution would also designate a site on Malcolm X Boulevard in Roxbury for the creation of a statue honoring him as part of the city’s Black Heritage Trail. It also seeks to renovate the ...
During my teenage years, I came across “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” The Muslim leader’s name grabbed my attention, but so did the author’s: Alex Haley. My dad swore by “Roots” and what it meant ...
