Malcolm X
As US refocuses anti-extremism programs on far right, many Muslims still oppose them
By Joseph Hammond — February 18, 2021
(RNS) — After the Capitol attack, the Biden White House called for countering violent extremism programs to shift to a focus on white supremacists. But Muslim groups say the programs are still a waste of resources.
NBA star Stephen Jackson on converting to Islam: ‘I needed to listen to my heart’
By Omar Suleiman — February 4, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Allah has blessed me with so much already, and now he has blessed me with Islam,’ said Jackson.
Moms of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin portrayed in new book
By Adelle M. Banks — January 15, 2021
(RNS) — The book by Anna Malaika Tubbs about Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin provides details of their lives of faith, discipline and sacrifice.
The Islamic history behind the George Floyd protests
By Michael Wolfe — June 22, 2020
(RNS) — Islam has a deep backstory in the continuing drama of resistance, protest and race in America.
How the fight for racial justice pushed Charleston beyond the segregated hour
By Matthew J. Cressler — February 24, 2020
(RNS) — Moving beyond King's most segregated hour means fighting for fairness day after day, year after year in the name of all of the prophets who stand against injustice.
After a week, distress over a black life returns to North Texas
By Omar Suleiman — October 14, 2019
DALLAS (RNS) — Barely a week after Botham Jean's parents went home, another black victim's name has been rendered into a hashtag.
My prayer on Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Lord, forgive us the sin of patience
By Will Willimon — January 13, 2017
(RNS) There’s a time for reconciliation, for prayers for unity and healing. This is not such an hour.
Why Malcolm X’s image as a separatist lives on, 50 years after his death
By Susanne Cervenka — February 17, 2015
(RNS) While other civil rights leaders of the 1950s and '60s are more broadly celebrated as American heroes, the fire with which Malcolm X spoke still overpowers the words he was saying.
‘The American Bible’ collects the texts that We the People love to fight about
By Daniel Burke — July 3, 2012
(RNS) There are certain speeches, songs, books, letters, laws, and axioms that Americans appreciate enough to argue about, says religion scholar Stephen Prothero. By Daniel Burke.
Malcolm X’s boyhood home, MLK’s neighborhood listed as ‘endangered’
By Adelle M. Banks — June 6, 2012
(RNS) The boyhood home of Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X and the neighborhood where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born have been listed as “endangered” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. By Adelle M. Banks.
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