Murder, Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, Manifest Destiny. Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny. By Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by Angela Y. Davis. San Francisco: Prison Radio, 385 pp., $27. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs THE ARC OF the radical universe is long, and Abu-Jamal and Vittoria are determined to extend it well into the 21st…
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The book isn’t new but this interview is! We talked about the politics of Malcolm X historiography, memory, and ideas even in 2020. Jared A. Ball and Todd Burroughs Dec 22, 2020 A Lie of Reinvention Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X 2012 This is part of our Special Series on Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. In…
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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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