The following was a Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture delivered at Fayetteville State University [University of North Carolina — Fayetteville], November 14, 2006. The…
Manning Marable
Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is co-founder of the Black Radical Congress, a national network of African-American activists. He is the author of 13 books, most recently Black Leadership (NY: Columbia Univ. Press. 1998).
AMY GOODMAN: We will be joined by Professor Marable in just a moment, but first we begin with Malcolm X himself in…
The nearly forty million Americans of African descent find ourselves in an unprecedented situation, with the slow demise of affirmative action. The…
We must be frank about the weaknesses of affirmative action, of which two were especially significant. Affirmative action policies first were crafted…
Affirmative action is being erased all across America. To understand how this tragedy happened, we need to review this country’s recent racial…
Throughout this year, the black reparations debate has become widely known, and it continued to attract increased national and international attention. In…
The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be described in history as the “U.S. Against the Third World.” The launching…
Marable Part One I recently was keynote speaker at the National Caucus of Black School Board Members, held during the sixty-first…
Manning Marable Stealing the Election: The Compromises of 1876 and 2000 We have just witnessed, in the United States, the massive…
‘Education Works, Prisons Don’t’ was the call to action that attracted hundreds of concerned New Yorkers at a Harlem teach-in, sponsored…