The Assassinations of Malcolm X Literal and Posthumous: A Contributors Roundtable

https://youtu.be/g8qOVhR1MGoContributors to A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X (Black Classic Press, 2012) will gather to discuss Malcolm’s life, politics, ideas, movements, and the attempts to posthumously erase, diminish, or rebrand them. A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X http://www.blackclassicbooks.com/9781…​ Discussing A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X https://imixwhatilike.org/2019/02/20/…​…

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The Distortion of Malcolm X: Baba Zak Kondo v Netflix

Author, scholar, and leading authority on the assassination of Malcolm X, Baba Zak Kondo, discusses the inaccuracies in the Netflix series, “Who Killed Malcolm X?” and his own misrepresented interviews. Contributors to A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X (Black Classic Press, 2012) will gather to discuss Malcolm’s life, politics, ideas, movements, and…

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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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