"...and as he did more research and as the Malcolm X project was able to access more materials what emerges is a complex, complicated, multidimensional portrait of Malcolm in his humanity. So one of the things Professor Marable wanted to do was present a humanized portrait of Malcolm. And so in a sense this book is a kind of iconoclasm in that way in that it takes Malcolm off of the pedestal to examine him as a human being struggling through these political and religious currents that he was in."
Rich, growing, morphing, Black conscious beauty.
"Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention": Manning Marable’s Exhaustive Biography of the Civil Rights Leader
I don't mind claiming him. Actually the supposed scandal makes him even more fascinating, more family. :)
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ooooh, I love the new layout!
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