BOOK REVIEW: MALCOLM THE TENTH? MORE LIKE 7 3/8ths: THE POWERFUL PAYNE PAINFULLY PETERS OUT BEFORE PUNTING

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….

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Book Review: Elombe Brath’s Proletariat Prose

Elombe Brath (1936-2014), whose writings from two decades have been collected here in a fundraising vehicle for the memorial foundation bearing his name, was the heir of Harlem’s street orators—those men who gathered at streetcorners before and after World War II and talked about the Africa inside. Armed with a century of books, pamphlets and documents, these people educated African villages across America about the relationship between history, culture, politics and society from the perspectives of the most powerful people who had ever been colonized.

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The Malcolm X iMiXWHATiLiKE! Tribute Special

The full Killer Bs Squad was in effect for this special TWO HOUR edition of iMiXWHATiLiKE! We heard from Malcolm X colleague and journalist Peter Bailey about his work with the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) and his being in the Audobon Ballroom the day of the assassination.  We then spoke with author Herb Boyd…

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