Marable

Manning Marable is professor of History and Political Science, and the

Facing the Demon Head On: Institutional Racism and the Prison Industrial Complex 2000

Blair Kelley, a history professor at North Carolina State University, called Marable's death a "devastating" loss for black historians.

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But what will come as a shock is Marable's assertions that the Malcolm X the world has come to know through Alex Haley's 1965 New York Times bestseller The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Spike Lee's 1992 film Malcolm X, based largely on Haley's book, is fictive.

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I have a similar reaction to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which Manning Marable has recently shown to be full of embellishment.

Michael Levy: Can Memoir Be Trusted? Michael Levy 2011

But this claim by Marable, however, of Malcolm's same-sex relationship is not new.

Irene Monroe: Malcolm X Was "Gay-for-Pay," New Book Says Irene Monroe 2011

And this time hear them coming from one of our own -- Manning Marable, a renowned and respected African American historian and social critic from Columbia University.

Irene Monroe: Malcolm X Was "Gay-for-Pay," New Book Says Irene Monroe 2011

I have a similar reaction to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which Manning Marable has recently shown to be full of embellishment.

Michael Levy: Can Memoir Be Trusted? Michael Levy 2011

The only signee at the position is 5-8, 170-pound speedster Malcolm Marable.

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The war on drugs has destroyed too many of us and killed many more, and it's time for it to come to an end by any means necessary yes, I am deliberately quoting Malcolm, who will always be my hero in spite of what Manning Marable chose to write about him.

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But what will come as a shock is Marable's assertions that the Malcolm X the world has come to know through Alex Haley's 1965 New York Times bestseller The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Spike Lee's 1992 film Malcolm X, based largely on Haley's book, is fictive.

Irene Monroe: Malcolm X Was "Gay-for-Pay," New Book Says Irene Monroe 2011