Contributor: We celebrate civil rights heroes only after they stop making us uncomfortable

Black History Month should prompt more than commemoration. It should force us to ask why the figures we now hold up as icons ...

13 of Malcolm X’s most powerful quotes to keep in your back pocket

Explore 13 powerful Malcolm X quotes on justice, identity, and resistance. See how his words still speak truth today.

Malcolm X’s daughter speaks in Modesto: His stance on violence was misunderstood

Ilyasah Shabazz was 2 years old when her father, Malcolm X, was slain in New York City in 1965. She spoke Saturday night at Modesto Junior College about his quest for equality for Black people. And ...
Toledo City Paper

Reel to Real: Passing The Word Along

When people think of the civil rights movement, important names come to mind: Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, ...

Malcolm X (1992)

Denzel Washington in Malcolm X. In the wrong hands, a biographical epic can be a real snooze. In the right ones—and with a perceptive, expressive actor at its center—it can have a kind of transportive ...