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C-SPAN BookTV: "Harlem Book Fair Panel on Manning Marable's 'Malcolm X'"

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.