With a new introduction by National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi, the classic collection of speeches given between 1963 and 1965 by Black liberation champion Malcolm X Malcolm X Speaks contains the major late speeches of one of the most important leaders for Black liberation and empowerment, who was also one of the great orators of our time. For many years, Malcolm X resisted the nonviolent and integrationist approaches of the mainstream civil rights movement, emphasizing instead the separation of the white and Black races. Beginning with his break from the Black Muslims, however, Malcolm X moved away from philosophies of the Nation of Islam and began to take a broader view of the potential for productive alliances with other groups in the battle for liberation. Now reissued with a new introduction by National Book Award winner and bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi, Malcolm X Speaks is an essential volume in the literature of Black power.