{"product_id":"the-afterlife-of-malcolm-x-an-outcast-turned-icons-enduring-impact-on-america-9781668033296","title":"The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America","description":"\u003cb\u003ePublished to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMalcolm X has become as much of an American icon as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, or Martin Luther King. But when he was murdered in 1965, he was still seen as a dangerous outsider. White America found him alienating, mainstream African Americans found him divisive, and even his admirers found him bravely radical. Although Ossie Davis famously eulogized Malcolm X as \"our own Black shining prince,\" he never received the mainstream acceptance toward which he seemed to be striving in his final year. It is more in death than his life that Malcolm's influence has blossomed and come to leave a deep imprint on the cultural landscape of America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith impeccable research and original reporting, Mark Whitaker tells the story of Malcolm X's far-reaching posthumous legacy. It stretches from founders of the Black Power Movement such as Stokely Carmichael and Huey Newton to hip-hop pioneers such as Public Enemy and Tupac Shakur. Leaders of the Black Arts and Free Jazz movements from Amiri Baraka to Maya Angelou, August Wilson, and John Coltrane credited their political awakening to Malcolm, as did some of the most influential athletes of our time, from Muhammad Ali to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and beyond. Spike's movie biopic and the Black Lives Matter movement reintroduced Malcolm to subsequent generations. Across the political spectrum, he has been cited as a formative influence by both Barack Obama--who venerated Malcolm's \"unadorned insistence on respect\"--and Clarence Thomas, who was drawn to Malcolm's messages of self-improvement and economic self-help. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn compelling new detail, Whitaker also retraces the long road to exoneration for two men wrongfully convicted of Malcolm's murder, making \u003ci\u003eThe Afterlife of Malcolm X\u003c\/i\u003e essential reading for anyone interested in true crime, American politics, culture, and history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Whitaker was born outside of Philadelphia, raised by a single mother in southeastern Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College and Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. He worked for twenty-five years at \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, rising to become the magazine's first African American top editor (1998-2006). Subsequently, Whitaker worked in television news as Washington Bureau Chief for \u003ci\u003eNBC News\u003c\/i\u003e and Managing Editor of \u003ci\u003eCNN Worldwide\u003c\/i\u003e. He is currently an Emmy Award-winning Contributing Correspondent for\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eCBS\u003ci\u003e Sunday Morning\u003c\/i\u003e. Whitaker's first book, \u003ci\u003eMy Long Trip Home\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize, and he has since written four more books. He is a judge for the Peabody Awards, the John Chancellor Award, and was previously a juror for the duPont\/Columbia Awards. Mark Whitaker is married with two adult children and resides in Manhattan and Woodstock, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51260353937682,"sku":"9781668033296","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_07ca98f8-89fa-434d-9a5a-2127a1925d9d.jpg?v=1746643672","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-afterlife-of-malcolm-x-an-outcast-turned-icons-enduring-impact-on-america-9781668033296","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}