Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Manning Marable
Born: May 13, 1950
Died: April 1, 2011 (aged 60)
Bio: William Manning Marable was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies.
Known for:
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011)
- How capitalism underdeveloped Black America (1983)
- Living Black history (2005)
- Race, reform, and rebellion (1984)
- Black leadership (1998)







