Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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)