About the author

Manning Marable (1950–2011) was a professor of history, public affairs, and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable authored fifteen books including Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for History.

 

Leith Mullings is a distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center CUNY. She is an anthropologist, author, lecturer and educator. Her Web site is http://leithmullings.com.