For decades, the story of Malcolm X has been told and retold. But the story of the woman who shaped him has remained largely in the margins.
In her novel “Ocean Stirrings,” Professor Emerita Merle Collins centers on Louise Little, a Grenadian-born activist, community organizer and the mother of Malcolm X. The award-winning 2023 novel reconstructs Little’s world across colonial Grenada, migration and racial terror in North America.