Feb 22, 2015 · Malcolm X was a great human rights activist and this anniversary of his assassination comes perhaps at a critical moment in our history.

Feb 19, 2008 · Had she been a man, Ella Baker’s name might be as recognizable as Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X. She’d done the work to earn it, historians say: A major role with the National Association...

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an …

Nov 21, 2024 · Malcolm X was a powerful voice for Black empowerment and racial and economic justice. After the murder of his father, and a difficult childhood, he transformed his life during a prison sentence, embracing the Nation of Islam’s teachings and emerging as a prominent leader.

A prominent leader of the Black Power movement and civil rights activist, Malcolm X, nee Little, grew up in the foster system after his father’s likely murder by white supremacists for his open support of Marcus Garvey.

Portsmouth First Citizen Recipients For eighty-seven years, the citizens of Portsmouth have honored an individual for his or her contributions to the Portsmouth community by naming that individual Portsmouth’s First Citizen.

Aug 25, 2016 · In his early years, Malcolm experienced extreme racism, spent years in the foster system and served a sentence in jail for larceny and breaking and entering. While in jail Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam and after his release, he became the public face of the organization.

Three men, Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler, and Thomas 15X Johnson, were all convicted of the murder in March of 1966. The legacy of Malcolm X and his work have inspired and informed many others in their fight for social justice and equality.

Jan 23, 2007 · Malcolm X, one of the most influential African American leaders of the 20th Century, was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925 to Earl Little, a Georgia native and itinerant Baptist preacher, and Louise Norton Little who was born in the West Indian island of Grenada.