Malcolm X was immortalized in Spike Lee's biographical movie in 1992. The filmmaker told Newsweek why the life and message of ...

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Spike Lee helmed the 1992 biopic on the activist but was left "broke" after spending "half [his] salary" on it.

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker, author of "The Afterlife of Malcolm X," looks at how the charismatic and defiant Black leader's influence has grown in the decades ...

In one chapter, Whitaker writes about the artistic choices made by director Spike Lee and actor Denzel Washington for their masterful 1992 biopic, "Malcolm X," which dramatized the life of Malcolm ...