The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Les Payne and Tamara Payne. New York: Liverlight. 537 pp., $35. Reviewed by Todd Steven BurroughsIt 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. Again,…
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Veteran of the Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army and former Political Prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad was back to help interpret and properly define the moment. Watch this video on YouTube
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Glaude sits back from a safe distance on our MSNBC screens, away from Baldwin’s edginess while constantly acknowledging it. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.Eddie S. Glaude Jr.New York: Crown.239 pp. $27. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs In America once upon a time in the 20th century, there were…
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