In "The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America" (to be published May 13 by Simon & Schuster), journalist Mark Whitaker looks at how the influence of the ...

If you were around in the early ’90s you saw a whole lot of baseball caps emblazoned with a simple capital “X.” They marked an ingenious marketing stroke on the part of filmmaker Spike Lee, who would ...

It’s been 100 years since Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and 60 years since he was assassinated. His expansive legacy is the focus of a new book written by journalist Mark Whitaker. He sat ...

The journalist Mark Whitaker tracks the afterlife and influence of one of the 20th century’s most famous agitators. By Brandon M. Terry Brandon M. Terry is a professor of social sciences at Harvard ...

Mark Whitaker has jumped ship from NBC News, where as vice president he was the highest-ranking person of color, to CNN, where he will hold that same distinction. Whitaker was named to the newly ...

“I approached the book the way I’d been trained to report any story, which was not to pass judgment, not to have an agenda, but to hear everyone’s side and really get it right,” says CNN Worldwide ...

Mark Whitaker's new book deftly traces Malcolm X's enduring cultural impact six decades after he was assassinated. (Bettmann Archive via Getty Images) If you were around in the early ’90s you saw a ...

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