Though the discussion here was not of our book, A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X, it does speak directly to the issue(s) we raise therein. During their exchange at this year’s Left Forum panel on Manning Marable’s reinvention of Malcolm X Amiri Baraka and Bill Fletcher (along with Haki Madhubuti at a panel…
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We had an “academic barbershop roundtable” this morning on the politics of race and pop culture in the context of Black superhero comic books. Our guests were Drs. Adilifu Nama (author of Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes), Dwain Pruitt (comic author and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State…
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This was our one visit to Al Jazeera / and the last taping of the Riz Khan Show for a panel discussion on Viking Press’ A Life of Reinvention… Zaheer Ali had previously ignored an invitation to my radio show and after this panel, where unbeknownst to anyone involved the producer did not inform him prior to the…
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