The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Les Payne and Tamara Payne. New York: Liverlight. 537 pp., $35. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs It must be great to be a renowned-but-recently-deceased Black writer, because your half-effort gets a full heaping of praise from the grave. In this case, history is not rhyming, but looping….
Read more‘Alternative Media and Spaces’ and the Exclusion of Radical Politics
Drs. Todd Steven Burroughs and Jared Ball joined Voices With Vision to discuss the erasure of radicalism from nominally radical spaces and media. The two talk about their work A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X and the latest documentary from Netflix.
Read moreThe Ideology War Over Malcolm X-Civil Rights Icon or Revolutionary Nationalist Leader?
Honored to be back again on my favorite podcast talking about Malcolm X and the various ways his life and politics are depicted.
Read moreNew Netflix Documentary Avoids the Why in Favor of the “Who Killed Malcolm X?”
By largely ignoring questions of “why” he was killed the new Netflix documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X?” largely ignores the important politics and ideas that made Malcolm X a symbol to this day of international revolutionary struggle. REFERENCED ITEMS: A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the Extreme Defining…
Read moreA Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
“This collection of essays by Black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, is a critical response to Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Though lauded by many, Marable’s book was debated and denounced by others as a flawed biography, full of conjecture and errors and…
Read moreThe Missing Chapters of Malcolm X
It was a pleasure to be back again with Ka’ba and WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC for this discussion with A. Peter Bailey about Malcolm X, the “missing chapters” of his autobiography and the recent article about it all in the New York Times.
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