Hundreds of people gathered in New York for the commemoration held on 50th anniversary of the death of activist Malcolm X. (Reuters) By Michael A. Fletcher February 21 NEW YORK — Several hundred…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Columbia University professor Manning Marable claimed Al-Mustafa Shabazz was the man who shot and killed the activist and former Nation of Islam leader in 1965 in…
History, my friends, is being made everyday: a phenomenal thing to truly grasp. Historic “shifts,” impacting how we think, what we think and (hopefully) ever nudging the human race to forge new, more resilient paths to justice. Sometimes, however, those shifts are so rapid and so unassuming that their significance can oft times evade us.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — FIFTY years ago today my father, Malcolm X, was assassinated while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. I think about him every day, but even more in the last year, with the renewed spirit of civil rights activism after the tragic events in Ferguson, Mo., on Staten Island and in countless other parts of the country. What would he have to say about it?
By Krissah Thompson Malcolm X on March 5, 1964 (Eddie Adams/AP) After a life filled with transformation, Malcolm X found himself in February 1965 in the throes of yet another. He…
Jamaican-born Orlando Patterson, a Harvard sociology professor since 1969, likes to tackle big issues. Slavery and Social Death and Freedom in the Making of Western Culture…
In July 2014, the Federal Reserve released a report that outlined the growing retirement crisis in America. Nearly a third of Americans over the age of 18 have no retirement savings.
Meet American torture victim Darrell Cannon. On the morning of Nov. 2, 1983, Cannon, then 32 years old, was tortured while in the custody of the Chicago Police Department.
Raleigh, N.C.: An African-American Muslim imam, Oliver Muhammad, offered the call to prayer; members of black Greek-letter fraternities served as event marshals and as marchers…
Meet American torture victim Darrell Cannon. On the morning of Nov. 2, 1983, Cannon, then 32 years old, was tortured while in the custody of the Chicago Police Department.
Esteemed President Luis Guillermo Solís; Esteemed Heads of State and Government of Latin America and the Caribbean; Esteemed Heads of the Delegations and guests accompanying us.
In each police-related death recently dominating the headlines, authorities overreacted to black men’s behaviors as if they were life-threatening.