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Apr 7, 2011

Cover Story

It’s Been Real: Saying Good-Bye To An Old Friend – Along The Color Line

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Note: In 1976, at the age of 26, Manning Marable began the syndicated public affairs series “Along The Color Line”, focusing on political issues and public events that had special significance to African Americans and to other people of color internationally. It was inspired by the great tradition for political event columns written by W.…

Note: In 1976, at the age of 26, Manning Marable began the syndicated public affairs series “Along The Color Line”, focusing on political issues and public…

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Commentary

In Honor of Manning

By Steven Pitts Editorial Board

Manning Marable—Brother Manning Marable—Ever since I received the e-mail announcing his passing I have been despondent. I did not know him that well. I had met him at a few conferences. We had a couple of e-mail and telephone conversations. But given the tightly networked world of the Black Left, there was less than six…

Manning Marable—Brother Manning Marable—Ever since I received the e-mail announcing his passing I have been despondent. I did not know him that well. I had met…

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Commentary

Manning Marable and the March Towards a Socialist America

By Dr. Horace Campbell, PhD Editorial Board

The Great Wells Of Democracy (2003) His most recent book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011), was issued on Monday April 4, three days after he joined the ancestors. From the press reports of the book, this work of over 600 pages will ignite new debates and discussions on one of the principal figures…

The Great Wells Of Democracy (2003) His most recent book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011), was issued on Monday April 4, three days after…

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Color of Law

Manning Marable: Consummate Black Scholar-Activist – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

I first met Manning Marable 12 years ago this month. At the time I was a news producer for Democracy Now! in New York, and was covering a conference Dr. Marable held at Columbia University on racial bias in the criminal justice system. The conference covered issues of great interest to me, including police brutality,…

I first met Manning Marable 12 years ago this month. At the time I was a news producer for Democracy Now! in New York, and was…

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Commentary

Manning Marable: Angry, Militant and Impatient – Leftward-Ho

By Peter Gamble Publisher

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Dr. Rose M. Brewer, PhD sent me the following note about the death of Manning Marable: Manning Marable told me that one question he was asked often was “How do you write so much?” He said the answer was simple “In order to write, you have to sit down and do…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Dr. Rose M. Brewer, PhD sent me the following note about the death of Manning Marable: Manning Marable told me that one…

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Commentary

The U.S.’s Romantic Remake of COINTELPRO in Africa

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

“Throughout their entire history as a people,” writes Dr. Manning Marable in Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal, African Americans have created themselves.” They did so in the context of the transatlantic slave trade and two-and-a-half centuries of chattel slavery – a structure of overwhelming inequality and brutality characterized by…

“Throughout their entire history as a people,” writes Dr. Manning Marable in Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal, African Americans have…

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Commentary

Ode To Manning Marable: Provocative Scholarship In Life and Now In Death

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

This week was supposed to be a landmark occasion in the evolution of contemporary African American thought. A new release on the life and death of an American success and race tragedy, published by Viking (Penguin Group) and written by author, columnist, scholar Manning Marable, called Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, sought to refine…

This week was supposed to be a landmark occasion in the evolution of contemporary African American thought. A new release on the life and death of…

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