Remembering Dr. Manning Marable

Dr. Manning Marable, the author of a long-awaited new biography of Malcolm X to be published Monday and director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, died Friday at the age of 60 The New York Times, Marable’s “transformationist” approach is described as urging “black Americans to transform existing social structures and bring about a more egalitarian society by making common cause with other minorities and change-minded groups.”