A discussion of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X. This event took place November 5, 2013 at the East Columbia Branch of the Howard County Library in Columbia, MD.
Read moreWhose Malcolm X? Amiri Baraka and Bill Fletcher Debate
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…
Read moreMalcolm X: Who Was the Man Behind the Legend?
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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