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They are also histories and monuments of these people. so included in your sculptures are the stelae to malcolm x, the assassinated civil rights activist who was killed in 1965 and a very hugely important figure for you. and you say that his assassination came like a bombshell to you. how did you feel at the time when you heard about his death? and how did that influence the stelae, which have taken you the best part of five decades to make? i had been living in europe for many, many years when ...

..15 years later, i made another ten. but, barbara, you say what an important figure malcolm x was, and you were really a bit of a trailblazer yourself. african american woman, black american woman, studied at temple university, yale school of architecture and design. you were the first black american woman to receive a masters in fine arts. and yet, you decided to settle in paris, in france, late 1960, 1961. but why did you not stay in the united states and be part of the civil rights movement ...

Oscar winner, 'Black Panther' costume designer Ruth Carter's movie fashions to go on exhibit at NC Museum of Art in Raleigh for 4 months

As an aspiring reporter, the author wrote about race issues as they moved from idealism to disillusion to anger to violence.

The Boston hotel has hosted notable figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm X, and John F. Kennedy

The University of Rhode Island has removed a partial Malcolm X quote from the facade of its main library, 30 years after members of the school’s Black Student Leadership Group

She devoted her life to dismantling the inequalities minorities and women face in America.

On this day, the boxer Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali. Why Ali changed his name is part of a long tradition of African Americans refusing the labels of slavery.

Voters at that level in generality. but i think its important for us to understand that for a complex community, folks are disappointed. there is always a lag between the expensive rhetoric of the president and the policy position. so there are positions to be taken, and then theres the actions. the actions weve seen recently with regards to -- he has said that he will veto the crime bill, the criminal reform bill in dc. but we also need to understand, i will say this quickly if i can. how we re...

More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.