*Since it was published in 1965, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” has sold millions of copies around the world, and it will now reach a new audience with the Audible release of an unabridged audio ...
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 ...
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 ...
In August 2020, LeBron James addressed the media at what looked like a typical press conference. But this time, there was a slight difference: the Los Angeles Lakers star had a book with him — "The ...
Stories of race, racism and colonialism in the U.S. swept the Pulitzer Prizes for the arts, from Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Night Watchman” to a Malcolm X biography co-written by the late Les Payne ...
Tamara Payne, the daughter of former Newsday journalist Les Payne, is coming to Roosevelt Public Library on Thursday to talk about "The Dead Are Arising," her father's biography of Malcolm X that she ...
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, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Ahead of its new production of Anthony Davis’s “X,” the house hosted a starry, 18-hour reading of Malcolm X’s autobiography. Bryce Christian Thompson, left, and Scarlett Diviney ...
"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 ...
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 ...