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2011 Harlem Book Fair - Panel: Manning Marable's Malcolm X

Zaheer Ali; Herb Boyd; Peniel Joseph; Sonia Sanchez; Yohuru Williams

About the Program

From the 2011 Harlem Book Fair, a panel discussion of Manning Marable's biography of Malcolm X.  The panel includes, Herb Boyd, co-author, Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today, Peniel Joseph, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama, Zaheer Ali, former associate director of Columbia University's Malcolm X Project, and author and activist Sonia Sanchez. The panel is moderated by Yohuru Williams, associate African American History professor at Fairfield Univesity.  Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in history.

About the Authors

Herb Boyd

Herb Boyd is the author of numerous books, including Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America co-edited with Robert Allen, which was the recipient of the American Book Award for non-fiction.   He is an adjunct instructor in the Black Studies Department at City College and an African and African-American History teacher at the College of New Rochelle.


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Peniel Joseph

Peniel Joseph is a history professor at Tufts University.  He is the author of Waiting 'Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America  and editor of The Black Power Movement and Neighborhood Rebels.  For more information, visit penielejoseph.com.


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Zaheer Ali

Zaheer Ali is a former senior researcher and project manager of the Macolm X Project at Columbia University, where he worked under the direction of Manning Marable.  For more information, visit zaheerali.com.

Yohuru Williams

Yohuru Williams is the author or editor of several books, including Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Panthers in New Haven.  He is an associate African American History professor at Fairfield University. 

Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez is the author of several books, including Homegirls and Handgrenades, recipient of the American Book Award and Does Your House Have Lions?, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFor more information, visit soniasanchez.net.

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