Falling in love with my culture led to me loving myself in ways I had never experienced before. Things I tried to tame at 18, ...

As Black History Month gets underway, a local exhibit is remembering the time when Malcolm X lived in the mid-Michigan area.  Before Malcolm X became the prominent activist ...

If you don't really know why, a good starting point is the 1992 film starring Denzel Washington (Gladiator II). An epic in many senses, the movie clocks in at 3 hours and 22 minutes, and it's also ...

In August 2020, LeBron James held a press conference that took an unexpected turn when he was spotted holding a copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Asked by reporter Taylor Rooks about his ...

Anthony Davis is known worldwide as a composer of orchestral and chamber works. The New York Times has called Davis one of ...

Max makes up for its absence of attention-grabbing original movies this month with a new, impressive assortment of bona fide ...

During the event, attendees will get a chance to dive into the book, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” The aim of the organization is to present books that are aligned with cultural themes ...

This week’s literary quiz tests your knowledge of films inspired by nonfiction books or deeply autobiographical novels.

Malcolm X’s leadership turned the Nation of Islam from a small religious group of 1,200 members into a powerful movement of up to 100,000 followers during the early 1960s. His message proved so potent ...

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

That author was Alex Haley, whose love for Knoxville and the East Tennessee region was part of what inspired him to build a home in nearby Norris, where he spent much of his later years. His house was ...

Alex Haley was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the novel, Roots, which was based on his family's history of ...