Stunning New Information on Malcolm X Assassination

Two decades in the making, Manning Marable’s nearly 600-page biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is described as a reevaluation of Malcolm X’s life, providing new insights into the circumstances of his assassination, as well as raising questions about Malcolm X’s autobiography. Manning passed away on Friday, just days before his life’s work was published. To discuss his legacy we’re joined by Michael Eric Dyson, sociology professor at Georgetown University and author of Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X, and also by Bill Fletcher, Jr., a friend of Marable and a longtime labor and racial justice activist. “There were three different sources that had an interest in Malcolm’s death, and that’s where [the book] becomes very important,” Fletcher says. “It was the police and FBI, the Nation of Islam, and also people in his own organization that resented the trajectory that he was moving in. So there was a confluence of sources that led to a situation where he was permitted to be killed. I think when people read this, it will be an incredible eye opener.” More.