BOOK REVIEW: MALCOLM THE TENTH? MORE LIKE 7 3/8ths: THE POWERFUL PAYNE PAINFULLY PETERS OUT BEFORE PUNTING

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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Are Blackness and Pan-Africanism Relevant In the Age of Chadwick Boseman?

Blacklash: The Africana Collective (BTAC) was set to discuss next the relevance today of Blackness and Pan-Africanism as organizing tools for the Africana Diaspora. Given the untimely passing of one of the world’s most famous members of that African Diaspora, and in particular, given how much Chadwick Boseman impacted directly and indirectly so many of…

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