Book Review: The Mouthpiece: Nkechi Taifa Bares Her Soul, Scars and Hopes

Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest For Justice. Nkechi Taifa. Foreword by Greg Carr. Washington, D.C.: House of Songhay II., 379 pp. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs Back in the days when radicalism was the norm in Black America and elsewhere, there once was a girl who sat on a Black Panther’s lap, abandoned…

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How Netflix And “Manning Marable” Killed Malcolm X (The Third Time)

by ANDREW STEWART At the outset, it is impossible to deny the vital role that the volume A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marrable’s Malcolm X (2012, Black Classics Press), edited by Drs. Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, played in the formation of this article. In 2011, Manning Marable, a legendary Marxian African American Studies scholar at…

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