Check out Malcolm’s collected speeches here. Browse these resources while listening to this playlist from Spike Lee’s Malcolm X. When purchasing any of the titles below, consider doing so from your nearest Black-owned bookstore.
BOOKS
Saladin Ambar: Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era.
Maya Angelou: All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes.
Richard Benson: Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960–1973.
Jan Carew: Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean.
Clayborne Carson: Malcolm X: The FBI File.
Claude Andrew Clegg: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad.
Garrett Felber & Manning Marable: The Portable Malcolm X Reader: A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything.
Garrett Felber: Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State.
Peniel E. Joseph: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Manning Marable: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
Les Payne: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
William W. Sales, Jr.: From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Marika Sherwood: Malcolm X: Visits Abroad: April 1964 – February 1965.
Stephen Tuck: The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest.
Richard Brent Turner: Islam in the African-American Experience.
Malcolm X: February 1965: The Final Speeches.
ARTICLES
Zaheer Ali: Malcolm X in Brooklyn.
The African American Intellectual Historical Society: An Open Letter to Netflix and the Producers and Directors of “Who Killed Malcolm X?”
Saladin Ambar: Interview with the author of Malcolm X at Oxford Union.
Ajamu Baraka: Why Embracing Anti-Colonialism Made Malcolm a Marked Man.
Josiah Bates: The Enduring Mystery of Malcolm X’s Assassination.
Maurice Berger: Malcolm X as Visual Strategist.
Keisha N. Blain: These Overlooked Black Women Shaped Malcolm X’s Life.
Keisha N. Blain & Eric McDuffie: On Louise Little, the Mother of Malcolm X.
Grace Lee Boggs: On Malcolm X: “He Was a Person Always Searching to Transform Himself”
Gillian Brockell: MLK’s famous criticism of Malcolm X was a ‘fraud,’ author finds.
Lynn Burnett: The International Malcolm X.
Clayborne Carson: The Unfinished Dialogue of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
Code Switch (podcast): Not Just A ‘Black Thing’: An Asian-American’s Bond With Malcolm X.
Columbia University: collection of government documents on Malcolm.
Ben Crump: Attorney for Malcolm X’s Family: “We Refuse to Let Anybody Exterminate Black History”.
Angela Davis: Malcolm X at 98: Angela Davis on His Enduring Legacy & the “Long Struggle for Liberation”.
Ashley Farmer: The Many Women Mentors of Malcolm X.
Garrett Felber:
- Malcolm X in the Courtroom.
- Women’s Leadership in the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
- Reconsidering Malcolm X and Islam.
- The Missing Malcolm X: Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.
- Malcolm X assassination: 50 years on, mystery still clouds details of the case: Despite freedom of information act requests throughout the years, New York still will not release records to the public and claim files would endanger the safety of police officers and constitute unwarranted invasions of privacy
Kerri Greenidge: Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X: Understanding the humanity, and the communities, that shaped the brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere radical.
Chris Hedges: Malcolm X Was Right About America.
Laura Warren Hill: There is a Malcolm for Me.
Robin D.G. Kelley: The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics During World War II.
Ibram X. Kendi: The Antiracist Philosophy of Malcolm X.
Yuri Kochiyama (video): Yuri talks about holding Malcolm as he died in this interview. Here, she talks about meeting him.
Alaina Morgan: Writing and Re-writing the Legacy of Malcolm X.
National Trust for Historic Preservation: Built in 1874, this modest structure is the last known surviving boyhood home of Malcolm X. He shared the house with his half sister, Ella Little-Collins, whose son is the current owner.
Amy Ongiri: Malcolm X, The Lover.
PBS: Explore the strong friendship between Maya Angelou and Malcolm X in Ghana.
Russel Rickford:
- Malcolm X and Anti-Imperialist Thought.
- The Roots of “Malcolmology”.
- Marable’s Malcolm: A Revisitation.
Sydney Trent: Malcolm X’s family reveals letter they say shows NYPD, FBI assassination involvement.