Professor Manning Marable Dies on Eve of Publication of His New Malcolm X Biography

As the University community mourns the untimely death of professor Manning Marable on Friday, April 1, his long awaited biography of Malcolm X is being published this week by Viking Press.

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On Saturday, April 2, The New York Times published a front-page story on Marable and his new book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. The Times obituary can be found here.

Professor Marable was the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies, as well as the founding director of Columbia’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and the Center for the Study of Contemporary Black History.

A fuller In Memoriam will appear on the On Campus News page and in the next issue of The Record.

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