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 ...

Although he’s studied Malcolm X for decades, Ibram X. Kendi, PhD, never thought he’d write a biography about the human rights activist. But when he got the opportunity to collaborate with the Malcolm ...

Stories of race, racism and colonialism in the U.S. swept the Pulitzer Prizes for the arts, from Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Night Watchman” to a Malcolm X biography co-written by the late Les Payne ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

It's a biting piece of criticism aimed at Malcolm X that for decades was attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. But a new biography of King suggests history books about these two men may need to be ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...