Jonathan Eig, speaking Thursday at the National Writers Series, won a Pulitzer for 'King: A Life.' Now, comes a look at ...

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X after a press conference at the U.S. Capitol about the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Washington ...

Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of the death of Malcolm X, who has always been a strong cultural figure, often pitted as the opposite of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Since at least the ...

Malcolm X is often portrayed as a controversial figure in contrast to leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached nonviolence, but Garrow said he also began speaking about racial unity ...

Malcolm X believed that the defining experience of black people in US society was not just of discrimination but of brutal oppression, and that separatism was the solution. King rejected violence ...