Elijah Muhammad

“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother… for big powerful America.”

"The Dead are Arising" may be the best Malcolm X biography yet. But its author seems unsure of how to write about a religion outside the American mainstream.

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

Decades before protests against mass incarceration galvanized the black freedom struggle, Malcolm indicted the entire justice system as racist.

Islamophobes today ignore the long history and contributions of Muslim Americans.

Its title, 'The Negro', seemed innocuous enough. But Malcolm X intended it to invoke a much harsher meaning.

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.

At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.

Black Muslims have been an influential force in the prisoners' rights movement and criminal justice reform.

From COINTELPRO to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

Despite Freedom of Information requests throughout the years, New York still will not release records to the public.

On the private and public lives of the author of “The Fire Next Time” and “Giovanni’s Room.”