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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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.
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