Storify: "Researching Malcolm, Reading Marable: A Malcolm X Project Roundtable"

As part of the Manning Marable Memorial Conference, fellow Malcolm X Project researchers May Alhassen, Garrett Felber, & Liz Mazucci joined me in a roundtable conversation moderated by Hishaam Aidi, about Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. We reflected on our work with Dr. Marable, his book, and its critics.

A partial audio recording of the session is forthcoming, but in the meantime, thanks to all those who tweeted here's a storified recap (may take a few seconds to load):

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"Honored to Be One of His Intellectual Offspring": My Tribute to Dr. Manning Marable

"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:

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The Michael Eric Dyson Show: "Remembering Dr. Manning Marable"

On Friday, we lost a giant in the world of academia and social justice, Dr. Manning Marable. Marable was professor of history and political science at Columbia University, and he passed away at age 60, just days before the release of the work that he spent much of the last decade of his life working on: the long-anticipated biography Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. We spend the hour paying tribute to this great scholar, author, and activist, speaking first to the person who knew and understood Manning Marable best—his wife, partner, and fellow scholar, Dr. Leith Mullings....

Then we speak with two of Marable’s colleagues at Columbia University about his work in the academy. Dr. Farah Griffin, professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies and author of Who Set You Flowin’?: The African-American Migration Narrative, and Zaheer Ali, a doctoral student at Columbia University who assisted Marable with the Malcolm X biography, talk about Marable as a mentor, scholar, and academician. 

Listen to the program here.

NPR All Things Considered: "Mourning A Mentor: Students Pay Tribute to Marable"

Columbia University professor Manning Marable did not live to see the publication of his life's work, a new biography called Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. The book was released Monday, just days after Marable, 60, died Friday of complications from pneumonia.

Marable was the author of 15 books and a multitude of scholarly articles. He founded Colgate University's Africana and Latin American Studies program as well as the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia, where he was a mentor to countless students. Three of them gathered in the late scholar's office over the weekend to discuss why Marable was such an important influence on them — and on African-American research in the U.S.

Listen to the program & read the article here.

The Root: "Manning Marable's Students Remember Him"

They were a "veritable tribe" taught and guided by the Columbia University scholar of African-American life. Here are their tributes. 

Read my remembrance, along with those of my friends and colleagues, here.