The life of Manning Marable, the prolific author and founding director of the Africana and Latin American Studies Program at °Ä²Ê¿ª½±, will be celebrated Monday (Oct. 24) with two campus events that also will be webcast live.
Marable died April 1, 2011, at age 60. His book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, was published just three days after his death. The biography, at nearly 600 pages, has been characterized in media accounts as a re-evaluation of Malcolm X’s life that challenges long-held beliefs about the civil rights leader.
Marable was at °Ä²Ê¿ª½± from 1983 to 1987, teaching a range of courses including African American Social Thought and African American Freedom Struggles.
The two Monday events are open to the public and also available online at . There is no special software needed to view the live webcasts.
The events:
— 4:15 p.m., Love Auditorium
Keynote address by Clayborne Carson, professor of history and the founding director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Foundation. His topic will be “Manning Marable on the Integrity of Leadership and Scholarship in History’s Greatest Freedom Struggle.â€
— 7:30 p.m., Love Auditorium
Three scholars, Robyn Spencer (Lehman College), Russell Rickford (Dartmouth College), and Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence University) will discuss Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention