Malcolm X lived many different kinds of lives: a black boy in a white world, a hip outlaw, a studious jail bird, a disciplined Muslim and a man of the people who brought a message whose time had come.

On Friday, Ilyasah Shabazz will return to the site of a national tragedy − the place where civil rights icon Malcolm X was gunned down in front of his pregnant wife and young children.

Editor’s note: This story contains offensive language. Malcolm X’s bases of operations were generally Harlem, Chicago and the Northeast. He rarely ventured South, but there was one memorable ...

A foster child and street hustler who went on to become a world leader, Malcolm X electrified some audiences and terrified others with his aggressive brand of Islamic teachings and black nationalism.

Commemorating Malcolm X on the centenary of his birth and 60th anniversary of his assassination, ‘1965: Malcolm in the Winter: A Translation Exercise’ marks Theaster Gates’s first contact with the ...