|
Manning
Marable, the author of a long-awaited new biography of Malcolm
X to be published Monday, April 4th, director of the Institute
for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University
and member of the BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board,
died Friday, April 1, 2011 at the age of 60.
He
had been hospitalized with pneumonia last month, and last
summer had a double lung transplant meant to relieve him
of sarcoidosis, a lung disease from which he had suffered
for a quarter century.
The
next issue of BC will be devoted to a remembrance
of Dr. Marable.
Readers
of BC who want to contribute to the remembrance issue
should please click here
for submission guidelines.
Marable’s
facebook page is facebook.com/ManningMarable.
Click
here
to read the New York Times obituary.
Click
here
to contact the family of Dr. Marable.
|
