Tamara Payne won the National Book Award for a book largely written by her father, Les Payne. It's called The Dead Are Arising, a biography of... Malcolm X Biography Wins National Book Award STEVE ...

Tamara Payne, the daughter of former Newsday journalist Les Payne, is coming to Roosevelt Public Library on Thursday to talk about "The Dead Are Arising," her father's biography of Malcolm X that she ...

As Malcolm X's centenary approaches, books about his life have been flowing fast, furious and by any means necessary. (Robert Haggins / Associated Press) At a time when the federal government is ...

Kendi (Stamped) delivers an expansive and immersive biography of human rights activist Malcolm X (1925–1965), which traces the figure’s life from his birth in Omaha, Neb., to his assassination in New ...

This year marks 101 years since Malcolm X was born, and his sharp words on the reality of the American nightmare remain true today.

Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Tamara Payne and her father the late Les Payne’s ...

"What do you think you would do after 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow and lynching? Do you think you would respond nonviolently?" Those were some of the key questions Malcolm X posed to American ...