Kristen Clarke

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Kristen Clarke is Co-Director of the Political Participation Group at LDF. For the last 14 years, she worked closely with her mentor Dr. Manning Marable on a number of projects including 2 books: Barack Obama and African American Empowerment: The Rise of Black America’s New Leadership and Seeking Higher Ground: The Hurricane Katrina Crisis Race and Public Policy Reader (2007). Dr. Marable’s example of scholarship and activism has long inspired her path as a civil rights lawyer. Click here to contact Ms. Clarke.

Guest Commentary

Manning Marable – Our Great Scholar-Activist

By Kristen Clarke Guest Commentator

“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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