Well, on May 19, we’ll mark what would have been the 88th birthday of Malcolm X. Unfortunately, this year’s celebration of his extraordinary life will…
New information has emerged about the surprising death of Malcolm Shabazz’, the grandson of civil rights icon Malcolm X. According to the Associated Press, the…
If a new poll commissioned by BET founder and business magnate Robert Johnson is any indication, the myth of a monolithic Black America has been…
Jesse Jackson Jr. betrayed his devoted black constituents, stuffed his pockets with campaign cash, and now, as a result of his greed and arrogance, his…
Does Malcolm X deserve a federal holiday? Toure, a New York Times best-selling author, thinks so. He penned a Time Magazine column arguing that the civil rights legend is equally deserving of a federal holiday as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. SEE ALSO: Why Obama’s Critics Are Right What would we celebrate on “Malcolm X […]
Malcolm X’s youngest daughter has been jailed for failing to make good on a promise to pay back the $55,000 she swindled from an elderly New York woman. A judge ordered held Tuesday night after probation officials said she’d failed to make any of the monthly $1,229 restitution payments she agreed to as part of […]
Malcolm X’s youngest daughter was sentenced to 5 years probation Thursday for swindling an elderly widow out of $55,000 by running up charges on her credit card. Malikah Shabazz, 46, has been ordered to pay back the money she stole or risk being thrown into prison for seven years. Shabazz declined to comment on the […]
NEW YORK-Black historian, Manning Marable has died at age 60 of complications related to pneumonia. Marable was the the director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York. The Root reports: A lifelong Marxist, Manning was a member of Committees of Correspondence […]
BALTIMORE — The Library of Congress has selected Spike Lee’s 1992 biopic about Malcolm X and a 1959 film dramatization of a discussion between blacks and whites about jazz are among the images that will be preserved as part of its National Film Registry. The 25 films selected this year include “Malcolm X,” which starred […]
Via: www.newsone.com // Mehlman/News; Haggins/AP The man who murdered Malcolm X with a 1965 shotgun blast was released Tuesday from prison. Thomas Hagan, who turned 69 this month, walked out of the Lincoln Correctional Facility around 11 a.m., said state corrections spokeswoman Linda Foglia. Click here to view photos. Hagan was spending two nights a […]
In a GIANT/NewsOne.com exclusive, meet Malcolm Shabazz, the first male heir to Malcolm X. Watch him channel his grandfather in a series of unforgettable images.
