His image, peering through curtains while holding a rifle, is iconic, seared into the collective memory of Black America. His message of racial progress — defiant, hopeful, or threatening, depending ...

Directed by Spike Lee and featuring a powerhouse performance by Denzel Washington, the film chronicles Malcolm X’s evolution—from a troubled youth to a powerful voice for Black empowerment ...

Sixty years since the bullets flew inside the Audubon Ballroom, the echoes of Malcolm X’s voice refuse to fade ... for the America that preferred its Black men bent or broken.

Karen Goodfellow, Boston’s director of Transformative Art and Monuments ... to grow up and have no idea who people like Malcolm X are,” she said, adding that monuments can serve as a teaching tool.

Who killed Malcolm X? The civil rights icon was assassinated in New York six decades ago today, but questions about his death still swirl.

ExploreRead AJC Black History Month Series In 2012, historian Manning Marable won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” which carefully examined the civil righ ...

We’re living in a time that Malcolm X would recognize. A time when you have different groups of Black people who are divided politically. A time when Islamophobia and even genocide against Muslims are ...