Malcolm X was an iconic civil rights leader and proponent of Black empowerment portrayed by a variety of talented actors throughout film and television. Each brings to light different aspects of his ...

Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X (also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) following a brief but lasting career as a civil rights advocate and Black nationalist.

If you were around in the early ’90s you saw a whole lot of baseball caps emblazoned with a simple capital “X.” They marked an ingenious marketing stroke on the part of filmmaker Spike Lee, who would ...

Brooklyn, for filmmaker Spike Lee, is what Harlem was for Malcolm X: a community pulpit from which to do his life's work and muse on America. For Malcolm, it was routinely a gritty street corner ...

On a special episode (first released on February 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: This year marks 60 years since of the assassination of Malcolm X, a civil rights leader who pierced the consciousness ...