When Muhammad ... black, and it made the picture look a little more dramatic. A lot of people refer to the blow that knocked Liston down as the “phantom punch” because they didn’t see Ali ...

Muhammad Ali answered only to God. His direct expression of Black identity and refusal to meet white expectations made him a lightning rod. Many Americans, mostly white, recoiled, seeing him as ...

During his preparation, he decided to start researching Saint Sebastian more. Soon he discovered Muhammad Ali’s famous April 1968 cover of Esquire, shot by photographer Carl Fischer and art-directed ...

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker, author of "The Afterlife of Malcolm X," looks at how the ...

Michael Schaffer is a senior editor and columnist at POLITICO Magazine. He has covered national and local politics for over ...

The Nigerian American artist takes pencil and pastel to monumental scale. Her newest works are her most personal yet, and her ...

Chiharu Shiota, a Berlin-based artist, has conjured a multitude of immigrant stories in “Home Less Home,” her largest museum ...

Malcolm X was immortalized in Spike Lee's biographical movie in 1992. The filmmaker told Newsweek why the life and message of ...

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready.

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