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 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…
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