Highlight Reel of Recent Media Apperances:
"Our national conversations about poverty -- so entangled with race in unspoken ways -- have rendered the white poor invisible and the black poor pathological, and undermined our attempts to gain majority support for anti-poverty programs."
Read the article here.
What does the apparent rise in atheism and agnosticism (pdf) among blacks tell us about the utility of religion for African Americans in today's social and political climate? Interviews with academics, activists and advocates from everywhere on the religious spectrum reveal the diversity of views on this historically fraught -- and, for many, highly personal -- topic.
For the fifth in the series, The Root talked to Zaheer Ali.
Read the interview here.
African Americans, Atheism, Christianity, Islam, Religion, The Root in Web On November 15, 2011, I was honored to read, on behalf of Dr. Manning Marable, from his Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention at the National Book Award Finalists Reading held at the New School in New York City.
Watch the reading here:
Malcolm X, Manning Marable, National Book Awards As part of the Harlem Book Fair, this panel discussion, held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, explores the landmark publication of the late Columbia University Black Studies scholar Manning Marable’s biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
Moderated by Yohuru Williams (Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven), participants included (right to left) Herb Boyd (Civil Rights: Yesterday and Today), Peniel Joseph (Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama), Zaheer Ali (Former Project Manager, Malcolm X Project at Columbia University), and activist and poet Sonia Sanchez.
The program aired live on Saturday, July 23, on C-SPAN2, and can be viewed online here.
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, C-SPAN's Peter Slen interviewed me at the BookExpo America held in New York City, where we discussed my work with Dr. Manning Marable for Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention and the Malcolm X Project.
The interview first aired on Sunday, May 29, on C-SPAN2, and can be viewed online here or here.
C-SPAN, Malcolm X, Manning Marable in Television "Dr. Marable created an open and welcoming space for a diverse group of students—Nationalists, Marxists, Muslims, Christians, Jews, atheists, progressives, whites, blacks, browns, gay, straight—and fostered academic exchange among us that was vibrant, rigorous, and respectful of our differences.... I am honored to be one of his intellectual offspring."
On Thursday, May 26, 2011, Columbia University hosted a public celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Manning Marable.
My complete remarks follow:
Columbia University, Manning Marable Events are being held today across the country to mark what would have been Malcolm X's 86th birthday. Earlier this year a major new biography of Malcolm X was published titled, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
The book's author, Columbia University Professor Dr. Manning Marable, died at the age of 60 just days before its publication. Two decades in the making, the nearly 600-page biography is described as a re-evaluation of Malcolm X's life, providing new insights into the circumstances of his assassination, as well as raising questions about Malcolm X's own autobiography. Democracy Now! interviews Zaheer Ali, one of the researchers who worked with Dr. Marable on the biography. "In a sense, this book is kind of iconoclasm in that way in that it takes Malcolm off the pedestal to examine him as a human being struggling through these political and religious currents he was in," says Zaheer. Ali also served as associate director and senior researcher of Columbia University's Malcolm X Project, a program that focuses on the life and legacy of the civil rights activist.
Read the transcript and view the entire show here.
Democracy Now!, Malcolm X, Manning Marable in Television In a Q&A with the Austin American Statesman, I discussed the reception to Dr. Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, as well as the book's contributions to field of African American Studies and the public discourse on Islam in America.
Read the interview here.
Hosted by Philp Dodd for BBC Radio 3's "Night Waves," I joined Richard Brent Turner (author of Islam in the African-American Experience) and Mark Ledwidge (author of Race and US Foreign Policy: The African-American Foreign Affairs Network) in a conversation about the implications of Dr. Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. We discussed Malcolm X's relationship to Islam, his legacy in a so-called "post-racial" America, and the enduring legacy of Islam in the African-American community.
Listen to the program here (or click here to download):
African Americans, BBC, Islam, Malcolm X, Manning Marable, Richard Turner in Radio In a one-hour discussion with host Norm Stockwell of "A Public Affair" on Madison, Wisconsin's WORT-FM 89.9, I talked about Dr. Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, highlighting the book's treatment of Malcolm X's life and legacy, his multiple "reinventions," his meeting with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his assassination.
Listen to the program here:
Part 1 (or click here to download):
Part 2 (or click here to download):
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