Elijah Muhammad

A look into how Malcolm X employed gospel rhetoric to critique the mainstream civil rights movement for catering to white Christianity.

Stuart compares the shared values of Christian nationalists and the Nation of Islam in the 1960's and today.

The official newspaper of the Nation of Islam—published from 1960-1975—combined investigative journalism and Black Nationalist views on racial uplift.

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder.

What we can learn from him and his legacy.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

Judith Weisenfeld’s book, New World A-Coming, reinterprets the various religious movements among African Americans in the early twentieth century.

Malcolm X died fifty-one years ago today, just as he was moving toward revolutionary ideas that challenged oppression in all its forms.

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests.

On the religion, segregation, the civil rights movement, violence, and hypocrisy.

On the other side of the hardened activist was a man who stirred his coffee with his daughter's finger and told her it made it sweet.

What Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes failed to imagine.

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

In 1964, he toured Africa and the Middle East on a journey that would both transform his outlook and reveal the limits of transnational solidarity.

It was a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned out to be an illusion.

The Nation of Islam is controversial. Its practical purposes for incarcerated people transcend both politics and religion.

What’s happening amid the coronavirus pandemic is nothing new.

Can a system built on racial violence actually deliver justice?

It’s never just about religion, says the author of a book about celebrities discovering new religious identities.