Years ago, Les Payne was a New York newspaper columnist. He was a Pulitzer Prize winner, one of the stars of his paper, Newsday. Occasionally, he wrote a column about Malcolm X. But readers may not ...

An unpublished chapter of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” which had been out of the public eye as it had remained in private hands for decades, was sold to the New York Public Library on Thursday.

A life told with unfiltered clarity reshaped how race was discussed in America. Malcolm X’s journey forces readers to ...

Missing Pages From Malcolm X’s Autobiography Turn Up at Auction NEW YORK — For a quarter-century, they have been the stuff of myth among scholars: three missing chapters from “The Autobiography of ...

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 ...

Their possible existence was first teased at in 1992, when a private collector at an estate sale scooped up material belonging to Alex Haley, Malcolm X’s collaborator on the book, who died that year.