by Ken Sehested | Mar 5, 2021 | Opinion
Lent’s traditional emphases are prayer, almsgiving and fasting. Its siren call is to turn – to turn back from wanton, gluttonous and calloused ways to the journey toward shared dignity, justice and righteousness while relinquishing privilege, looted assets and...
by Ken Sehested | Mar 4, 2021 | Opinion
The New York City district attorney announced in 2020 that it had launched an investigation into the 1965 murder of Malcom X, for which three members of the Nation of Islam had been convicted. Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz) had broken with the organization’s policy of...
by Wale Hudson-Roberts | Jun 7, 2018 | Opinion
Are the differences between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as big as some make out? Personally, I don’t think so. About three years before his death, King underwent a conversion. Agreed, it did not parallel Malcolm’s Mecca conversion, but it was...
by Amy Ellis Nutt and Barry Carter | Apr 5, 2011 | News
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) For 46 years, the chief assassin of slain civil rights icon Malcolm X has been hiding in plain sight in Newark, according to a major new biography of the African-American leader released Monday (April 4). Al-Mustafa Shabazz is a 72-year-old Muslim...
