One other thing set The Autobiography of Malcolm X apart: its subject would not live to see book published — just as he had predicted. Alex Haley retired after 20 years with the Coast Guard in ...

In these interview excerpts, family and friends remember Malcolm X. Alex Haley, a novelist and journalist, began working on The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Malcolm in 1963. The book was ...

Sidney Poitier told Eddie Murphy to not compete with actors like Denzel Washington or Morgan Freeman for a role in 'Malcolm X ...

"Sidney Poitier said, 'You are not Denzel [Washington], and you are not Morgan [Freeman]. You are a breath of fresh air, and ...

Hollywood star Eddie Murphy revealed that actor-director Sidney Poitier advised him not to star in Malcom X which was ...

Eddie Murphy has revealed that he was warned against starring in an Oscar-nominated film by one of Hollywood's most iconic ...

Poitier was comparing Murphy to Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman, who were both finding their footing as Hollywood ...

His memoir, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", written with Alex Haley and published eight months after his death, is seen as ...

A Life of Reinvention,” which carefully examined the civil rights leader in ways 1965’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley,” did not. But in another Pulitzer Prize ...