By Richard Prince – Noted African American historian Manning Marable died in New York on Friday, three days before his long-awaited book containing revelations about Malcolm X is to be published, his publicist confirmed. He was 60.
A prolific writer, Marable directed the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University and for years wrote the column “Along the Color Line” in the black press.
“He had been hospitalized with pneumonia last month, and last summer had a double lung transplant meant to relieve him of sarcoidosis, a lung disease from which he had suffered for a quarter century,” Larry Rohter wrote in the New York Times.
According to Viking Press, his publisher, Marable’s “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” is “filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the ‘Autobiography.’ ” It “unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Read the full story at Richard Prince’s Journal-isms™.
