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 ...
Missing Pages From Malcolm X’s Autobiography Turn Up at Auction NEW YORK — For a quarter-century, they have been the stuff of myth among scholars: three missing chapters from “The Autobiography of ...
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 ...
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 ...
It's a biting piece of criticism aimed at Malcolm X that for decades was attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. But a new biography of King suggests history books about these two men may need to be ...
The first major biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in roughly forty years is out. Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life" has important new revelations about the civil rights leader and what he dealt with ...
NEW YORK — For a quarter-century, they have been the stuff of myth among scholars: three missing chapters from “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” reputedly cut from the manuscript after his ...
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 ...