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Dr. Manning Marable, PhD

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 Studies at Columbia University, from 1993 to 2003. Dr. Marable is an author or editor of over 20 books, including Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future (2006); The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life And Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, And Speeches (2005); Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle (2002); Black Leadership: Four Great American Leaders and the Struggle for Civil Rights (1998); Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics (1995); and How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society (South End Press Classics Series) (1983). His current project is a major biography of Malcolm X, entitled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, to be published by Viking Press in 2009. Click here to contact Dr. Marable or visit his Website manningmarable.net.

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Empire, Racism and Resistance

By Dr. Manning Marable, PhD Editorial Board

(4) and an analysis of the prospects for transnational racial and class resistance to both global apartheid and America’s “New Racial Domain.” In 1900, the great African-American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, predicted that the “problem of the twentieth century” would be the “problem of the color line,” the unequal relationship between the lighter versus darker…

(4) and an analysis of the prospects for transnational racial and class resistance to both global apartheid and America’s “New Racial Domain.” In 1900, the great…

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Race-Ing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives

By Dr. Manning Marable, PhD Editorial Board

The following was a Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture delivered at Fayetteville State University [University of North Carolina – Fayetteville], November 14, 2006. The racialized criminal justice system of America, with its two million prisoners, with four million others who are either on probation, parole or awaiting trial today, represents the greatest political and moral challenge to…

The following was a Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture delivered at Fayetteville State University [University of North Carolina – Fayetteville], November 14, 2006. The racialized criminal justice system…

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