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...
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 segment with Farah Griffin & Zaheer Ali here (or right-click here to download):
Zaheer Ali