The Distortion of Malcolm X: Baba Zak Kondo v Netflix
Author, scholar, and leading authority on the assassination of Malcolm X, Baba Zak Kondo, discusses the inaccuracies in the Netflix series, “Who Killed Malcolm X?” and his own misrepresented interviews. Contributors to A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X (Black Classic Press, 2012) will gather to discuss Malcolm’s life, politics, ideas, movements, and…
Read more
A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
“This collection of essays by Black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, is a critical response to Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Though lauded by many, Marable’s book was debated and denounced by others as a flawed biography, full of conjecture and errors and…
Read more