Brandon M. Terry

Brandon M. Terry is an Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies and of Social Studies at Harvard. He is the coeditor of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the editor of Fifty Years Since MLK. He is working on a new book, The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement. (March 2021)

The Two Titans of Civil Rights

“Both men ventured remarkably prophetic judgments about the ways that security state machinations and profligate war-making would prove utterly devastating to American life.”

March 6, 2021

What Dignity Demands

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

by Peniel E. Joseph

March 11, 2021 issue

Malcolm’s Ministry

Malcolm X’s dramatic life, and his insistence that the most disadvantaged play a part in their own emancipation, exert a strong pull on his many biographers.

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

February 25, 2021 issue

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