Dr. Manning Marable, PhD

In 1976, I became involved in the National Black Political Assembly, an African-American political group that attempted to build an independent movement outside of thetwo-party electoral system. We attempted to draft Julian Bond as our presidential candidate in 1976. Thekey intellectual who helped to frame our deliberation was a young Howard University political scientist, Ronald…

[“Along The Color Line”, written by Manning Marable, PhD and distributed by.BlackCommentator.com, is a public educational and information service dedicated to fostering political dialogue and discussion, inspired by the great tradition for political event columns written by W. E. B. Du Bois nearly a century ago. Re-prints are permitted by any Black-owned or Black-oriented publications…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Manning Marable, PhD is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars. Since 1993, Dr. Marable has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City. For ten years, Dr. Marable was founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American…

Since 2004, former Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, campaigned across the U.S. with a simple message: that there are essentially “two Americas,” separated by a chasm of inequality, defined largely by race and class. It was a truthful message that the vast majority of Americans didn’t want to acknowledge, or even hear. Yet the larger…

“Along The Color Line”, written by Manning Marable, PhD and distributed by www.BlackCommentator.com, is a public educational and information service dedicated to fostering political dialogue and discussion, inspired by the great tradition for political event columns written by W. E. B. Du Bois nearly a century ago. Several weeks ago, with much media fanfare, the…

“Along The Color Line”, written by Manning Marable, PhD and distributed by www.BlackCommentator.com, is a public educational and information service dedicated to fostering political dialogue and discussion, inspired by the great tradition for political event columns written by W. E. B. Du Bois nearly a century ago. I recently visited the Caribbean island of Jamaica…

“Along The Color Line”, written by Manning Marable, PhD and distributed by www.BlackCommentator.com, is a public educational and information service dedicated to fostering political dialogue and discussion, inspired by the great tradition for political event columns written by W. E. B. Du Bois nearly a century ago. At no previous moment in world history has…