Malcolm X's 100th birthday celebrated in NYC
New Yorkers remembered Malcom X Monday on what would have been his 100th birthday.
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New Yorkers remembered Malcom X Monday on what would have been his 100th birthday.
People in Inkster, Michigan, are celebrating a significant day as visitors toured the home where Malcolm X became Malcolm X, just two days before what would've been his 100th birthday.
In his book exploring the cultural hold that the activist continues to have decades after his death, journalist Mark Whitaker examines the artistic choices made by Spike Lee and Denzel Washington in their masterful 1992 biopic, "Malcolm X."
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker, author of "The Afterlife of Malcolm X," looks at how the charismatic and defiant Black leader's influence has grown in the decades following his assassination.
This month marks the 100th birthday of Malcolm X, the charismatic and defiant Black leader who electrified America with his blunt talk on civil rights, before he was assassinated in 1965. Correspondent Mark Whitaker, author of the new book "The Afterlife of Malcolm X," looks at how his influence has grown following his death, and how his controversial views and piercing questions about Black identity and racial injustice still resonate in the fractious politics of today.