If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary. Those were the words of Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago on February 21. The civil rights leader was the ...

Throughout American history, the assassination of Black leaders has served as a tipping point, igniting the greatest fears of Black Americans and rocking the moral consciousness of people concerned ...

Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of one of the most influential civil and human rights leaders in American history—El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known to the world as Malcolm X.

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 ...