Apr 7, 2011
Commentary
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Watch Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Michael Eric Dyson discuss Manning Marable on Democracy Now!
Watch Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Michael Eric Dyson discuss Manning Marable on Democracy Now!
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Last Fall we witnessed Ron Walters (9/10/10) and Ambrose I. Lane Sr. (9/14/10), pass away. The first week of April saw Manning Marable return to the ancestors as well. I didn’t really know Marable except thru twitter, where he informed me that he was in the process of writing his extensive volume on the life…
Last Fall we witnessed Ron Walters (9/10/10) and Ambrose I. Lane Sr. (9/14/10), pass away. The first week of April saw Manning Marable return to the…
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“Instead of leadership from above, democracy from below.” – Dr. Manning Marable The nation lost an intellectual giant with the passing of Dr. Manning Marable on Friday of last week – a scholar-activist whose voluminous books, papers and op-ed columns comprise a critical collection of today’s discourse on race in America. Ever the productive scholar…
“Instead of leadership from above, democracy from below.” - Dr. Manning Marable The nation lost an intellectual giant with the passing of Dr. Manning Marable on…
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I discovered Manning Marable as a 21-year-old freshman at Knoxville College, a historically black college I’d left my native Detroit to attend after working in factories and fathering a son during the time most college-bound kids are in school. I was in the library stacks, browsing the sociology section, when I came upon a book…
I discovered Manning Marable as a 21-year-old freshman at Knoxville College, a historically black college I'd left my native Detroit to attend after working in factories…
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