Journalist Whitaker (Saying It Loud) examines the far-reaching legacy of Malcolm X in this captivating biography. Whitaker begins with the immediate impact of Malcolm’s February 1965 assassination.

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As pundit David Brooks once opined, the United States is a creedal nation: “Almost every significant movement in American history has been led by people calling upon us to live up to our creed.” Few ...

1965 was a banner year for reading. Malcolm X had just been assassinated in New York City's Audubon Ballroom. The shock waves of a decade of political assassinations - Medgar Evers, John F. Kennedy, ...

In "The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America" (to be published May 13 by Simon & Schuster), journalist Mark Whitaker looks at how the influence of the ...