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Manning Marable @ Wikipedia
Manning Marable: A Brother, a Mentor, a Great Mind
Michael Eric Dyson recalls the pioneering scholar as a 20th-century Frederick Douglass who nurtured and inspired talented young academics.
By: Michael Eric Dyson
I discovered Manning Marable as a 21-year-old freshman at Knoxville College, a historically black college I'd left my native Detroit to attend after working in factories and fathering a son during the time most college-bound kids are in school. I was in the library stacks, browsing the sociology section, when I came upon a book that grabbed my attention: From the Grassroots: Social and Political Essays Towards Afro-American Liberation. It was clear that Marable's left politics reflected how he had baptized classic European social theory in the black experience. "Wow," I said to myself. "If Karl Marx was a brother, this is how he'd write and think."...[continued]
Prof. Manning Marable ("Harlem's Heritage") -columbiauniversity
Green Party 2000 Convention - Manning Marable plenary speech -mfeinsteintube
Manning Marable on "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" -Democracy Now
The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography - Democracy Now