Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Rumors about government awareness of X’s murder plot have long persisted since his 1965 death. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters The family of civil rights leader ...

Six decades after the assassination of prominent civil rights leader Malcolm X, a man who witnessed his death is coming forward with allegations that law enforcement officials had informants in the ...

This Black History Month was marked by the loss of civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, who passed away at the age of 84 last Tuesday, February 17. But that's not the only loss the community mourns in ...

The family of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X marked on Tuesday the anniversary of his 1965 assassination by announcing plans to sue agencies including the CIA, FBI, the NYPD and others for $100 ...

It was a literary rarity; an "autobiography" written by someone else, an intimate look into the life of an internationally ...