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- Saturday, Mar 02, 2013
Video In this episode, we see the political consciousness of Malcolm developed at a young age -
- Monday, Feb 25, 2013
Video The first in a series of videos that explore the life, death and significance of Malcolm X -
- Thursday, Nov 06, 2008
ZNet Article Manning Marable and Cynthia McKinney discuss Obama's win on Democracy Now. ZNet Article Manning Marable and Cynthia McKinney discuss Obama's win on Democracy Now. -
- Sunday, Apr 13, 2008
ZNet Article Obama's immediate challenge is to link the current economic and mortgage crisis being experienced by millions of Americans, with the political economy of the Iraq War. -
- Thursday, Mar 13, 2008
ZNet Article Several years ago, I was walking home to my Manhattan apartment from Columbia University, just having delivered a lecture on New York State's notorious "Rockefeller Drug Laws." The state's mandatory-minimum sentencing laws had thrown tens of thous... -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Manning Marable speaks at Green Party 2000 Convention in Denver, Colorado, June 24th, 2000. Introduced by Elizabeth Horton Sheff, City Council member, Hartford, Connecticut. -
- Friday, Jan 26, 2007
ZNet Article I recently visited the Caribbean island of Jamaica to deliver the fifth annual Michael Manley Memorial Lecture, in Kingston. It was, for me, a wonderful “homecoming.†I first visited Jamaica back in 1983, when I spoke as the â̈́... -
- Saturday, Jan 13, 2007
ZNet Article Several weeks ago, with much media fanfare, the James Baker-Lee Hamilton Committee submitted to President George W. Bush its long-awaited, bipartisan report on the U.S. war in Iraq. -
- Sunday, Dec 10, 2006
ZNet Article The following was a Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture delivered at Fayetteville State University [University of North Carolina -- Fayetteville], November 14, 2006.
The racialized criminal justice system of America, with its two million prisoners... -
- Thursday, Feb 24, 2005
ZNet Article AMY GOODMAN: We will be joined by Professor Marable in just a moment, but first we begin with Malcolm X himself in words recorded just a months before he was assassinated. It was January 1965, he gave this speech entitled "Prospects for Freedom."
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- Friday, Aug 13, 2004
ZNet Article In 1900, the great African-American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, predicted that the "problem of the twentieth century" would be the "problem of the color line," the unequal relationship between the lighter vs. darker races of humankind. Although Du Boi... -
- Friday, Apr 30, 2004
Commentary The nearly forty million Americans of African descent find ourselves in an unprecedented situation, with the slow demise of affirmative action. The enemies of racial justice have not (yet) reinstalled "colored" and "white" signs at restrooms and ... -
- Saturday, Apr 17, 2004
ZNet Article We must be frank about the weaknesses of affirmative action, of which two were especially significant. Affirmative action policies first were crafted in reaction to the struggles and demands of the Civi... ZNet Article Affirmative action is being erased all across America... -
- Monday, Nov 11, 2002
Commentary Throughout this year, the black reparations debate has become widely known, and it continued to attract increased national and international attention. In February 2002, CNN and USA Today commissioned the Gallup organization to conduct a national ... -
- Tuesday, Nov 20, 2001
Commentary The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be described in history as the "U.S. Against the Third World." The launching of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and only erodes American credibility ... -
- Wednesday, Apr 04, 2001
Commentary I recently was keynote speaker at the National Caucus of Black School Board Members, held during the sixty-first annual National School Boards Association in San Diego. I met hundreds of dedicated, progressive African-American community leaders wh... -
- Monday, Jan 08, 2001
Commentary We have just witnessed, in the United States, the massive and wholesale theft of the presidency. Yet the fraudulent political dynamics that propelled loser George W. Bush into the White House have happened before. A political philosopher once obse... -
- Wednesday, Nov 01, 2000
Commentary ÒEducation Works, Prisons DonÕtÓ was the call to action that attracted hundreds of concerned New Yorkers at a Harlem teach-in, sponsored by United New York Black Radical Congress, on October 27-28, 2000. The teach-in brought together students, pa... Commentary “Education Works, Prisons Don’t†was the call to action that attracted hundreds of concerned New Yorkers at a Harlem teach-in, sponsored by United New York Black Radical Congress, on October 27-28, 2000. The teach-in broug... -
- Monday, Sep 11, 2000
Commentary The greatest struggle of any oppressed group in a racist society is the struggle to reclaim collective memory and identity. At the level of culture, racism seeks to deny people of African, American Indian, Asian and Latino descent their own voices... -
- Thursday, Aug 31, 2000
Commentary There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of the mass incarceration o... -
- Friday, May 19, 2000
Commentary For more than one year, the controversy surrounding the New York murder of Amadou Diallo has made headlines throughout the world. Most people have heard by now about the unarmed African immigrant who was fired on 41 times as he stood in the vestib... -
- Monday, Mar 27, 2000
Commentary How far has America actually progressed toward more constructive race relations? Judging by some recent events, not much. -
- Friday, Feb 25, 2000
Commentary In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the Supreme Court turned down a petition for freedom from an enslaved African American. The author of the court's ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Tawney, declared that blacks could never be granted equal protecti... -
- Saturday, Jan 22, 2000
Commentary It was immensely significant for black America that the last major public demonstration in the U.S. in the 20th century was a protest over global economics and trade. -
- Monday, Jan 03, 2000
Commentary More than a century ago, conservative black educator Booker T. Washington proposed a strategy for black advancement within capitalism. The founder of both Tuskegee Institute and the National Negro Business League, Washington cautioned African Amer... -
- Monday, Dec 20, 1999
Commentary Several weeks ago I attended and spoke at a conference on race which was organized at Stanford University. After delivering my lecture, I walked down the steps from the stage. Clustered around the steps were several male and female graduate studen... -
- Thursday, Dec 09, 1999
Commentary The fundamental issue that will define U.S. politics in the first decade of the twenty-first century is the spiraling growth of inequality in American life. - All Recent Content
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- Thursday, Nov 06, 2008
ZNet Article Manning Marable and Cynthia McKinney discuss Obama's win on Democracy Now. ZNet Article Manning Marable and Cynthia McKinney discuss Obama's win on Democracy Now. -
- Sunday, Apr 13, 2008
ZNet Article Obama's immediate challenge is to link the current economic and mortgage crisis being experienced by millions of Americans, with the political economy of the Iraq War. -
- Thursday, Mar 13, 2008
ZNet Article Several years ago, I was walking home to my Manhattan apartment from Columbia University, just having delivered a lecture on New York State's notorious "Rockefeller Drug Laws." The state's mandatory-minimum sentencing laws had thrown tens of thous... -
- Saturday, Jan 13, 2007
ZNet Article Several weeks ago, with much media fanfare, the James Baker-Lee Hamilton Committee submitted to President George W. Bush its long-awaited, bipartisan report on the U.S. war in Iraq. - All Featured Content
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- Saturday, Mar 02, 2013
Video In this episode, we see the political consciousness of Malcolm developed at a young age -
- Monday, Feb 25, 2013
Video The first in a series of videos that explore the life, death and significance of Malcolm X -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Manning Marable speaks at Green Party 2000 Convention in Denver, Colorado, June 24th, 2000. Introduced by Elizabeth Horton Sheff, City Council member, Hartford, Connecticut. - All Recent Video
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- Monday, Apr 04, 2011
Book Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.
Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a... -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
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