In Martyrs to the Unspeakable, James Douglass tells of four Americans who challenged the established violence of the U.S.

What is the spiritual meaning of America’s high-profile political assassinations of the 1960’s? That’s a question that Birmingham Catholic peace activist, author and retired religion professor Jim ...

A witness to Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination says he heard comments from police officers as they restrained the alleged killer that suggest law enforcement was in on the killing. The details were ...

This article and interview originally appeared in All About History magazine issue 96. "The Sword And The Shield" by Dr Peniel E Joseph is available from Basic Books. They didn't hold high public ...

(RNS) — Malcolm X understood something painfully relevant today: The American empire does not just oppress — it manipulates. It does not just colonize — it gaslights. (RNS) — Sixty years ago today, ...

This lecture challenges the ways in which two icons of the 1960s, Dr. King and Malcolm X, are popularly characterized as rivals. Dr. Nebil Husayn argues that the two icons, in fact, represented a ...

In September 1960, in the heart of Black America, Harlem’s Hotel Theresa became the stage for one of the world’s most monumental encounters. When Malcolm X and Fidel Castro met there 65 years ago, ...

Nearly six decades after the shooting death of Malcolm X, a man who claims to have witnessed the assassination spoke up for the first time, and contends that law enforcement played a role in the 1965 ...

BOSTON (AP) — William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist and supporter of the Black Power movement who worked with Malcolm X and other prominent leaders in the 1960s, has died. He was 87.

Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights 60 years ago. But another key location in his story remains unmarked and largely forgotten: a modest brick house in East ...