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 ...

Tamara Payne, the daughter of former Newsday journalist Les Payne, is coming to Roosevelt Public Library on Thursday to talk about "The Dead Are Arising," her father's biography of Malcolm X that she ...

Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Tamara Payne and her father the late Les Payne’s ...

Kendi (Stamped) delivers an expansive and immersive biography of human rights activist Malcolm X (1925–1965), which traces the figure’s life from his birth in Omaha, Neb., to his assassination in New ...

"What do you think you would do after 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow and lynching? Do you think you would respond nonviolently?" Those were some of the key questions Malcolm X posed to American ...

On the 100th birthday of Malcolm X, we speak with one of his daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, and civil rights attorney Ben Crump as they continue to press the U.S. government for answers about his ...

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's latest book was released on May 13, 2025. Fact checked by Sarah Scott Although he’s studied Malcolm X for decades, Ibram X. Kendi, PhD, never thought he’d write a biography about ...