This month marks the 100th birthday of Malcolm X, the defiant, charismatic Black leader who electrified America with his blunt talk and biting humor. In his brief 39 years, Malcolm was many things ...

They marked an ingenious marketing stroke on the part of filmmaker Spike Lee, who would soon unveil one of his best movies, 1992’s “Malcolm X,” starring Denzel Washington as the fiery ...

Spike Lee helmed the 1992 biopic on the activist but was left "broke" after spending "half [his] salary" on it.

Of course, it was hard to make Malcom X (a film based on the autobiography of the famed civil rights leader) in 1992. Lee ...

Spike Lee felt "depressed" while making 'Malcolm X'. The 68-year-old filmmaker helmed ... who was an entrepreneur in D.C.; Tracy Chapman; Janet Jackson; Bill Cosby - he was the first person ...

In "The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America" (to be published May 13 by Simon & Schuster), journalist Mark Whitaker looks at how the influence of the ...

Spike Lee doesn’t think his Oscar-nominated Malcolm X biopic would have been possible to make in Donald Trump’s America. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote his fifth ...

Spike Lee looked back on the tolls of trying to complete his 1992 biographical epic Malcolm X, revealing that the period was the most depressed he has ever been. "That movie almost killed me when ...