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The afterlife of Malcolm X an outcast turned icon's enduring impact on America

Explores the iconic freedom fighter's posthumous influence on Black Power, hip-hop, literature, sports, and politics while also detailing the wrongful convictions in his assassination, offering a broad view of his lasting impact on American culture and history.

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Main Author: Whitaker, Mark (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
X, Malcolm, > 1925-1965.
Black Muslims > Biography.
African American political activists > Biography.
Biographies.
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Summary:Explores the iconic freedom fighter's posthumous influence on Black Power, hip-hop, literature, sports, and politics while also detailing the wrongful convictions in his assassination, offering a broad view of his lasting impact on American culture and history.
Physical Description:xxi, 426 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-404) and index.
ISBN:9781668033296
1668033291
Author Notes:Mark Whitaker is the former editor of Newsweek and the first African American to lead a national newsweekly . He then served as Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide. Whitaker's memoir My Long Trip Home was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His social histories Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance and S aying it Loud: 1966--The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement were both named among the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post .

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