Manning Marable
	Dr. Manning Marable is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars of the black experience. Since 1993, Dr. Marable has been Professor of History and Political Science, and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City, where he also serves as founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Born in 1950, Dr. Marable has authored and edited nearly twenty books and scholarly anthologies, including: The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (New York: Basic, 2003); co-editor, with Leith Mullings, Freedom (London: Phaidon, 2002); co-editor, with Leith Mullings, Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African-American Anthology, (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000); editor, Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); Black Leadership (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); Black Liberation in Conservative America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997); Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Radicalism and Resistance (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996); Beyond Black and White (London: Verso, 1995); Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991); W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986); Black American Politics (London: Verso, 1985); How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Boston: South End Press, 1983). His books-in-progress include a four-volume anthology set, The Malcolm X Library; a projected two-volume biography of Malcolm X; an edited volume on Africana Studies and Criminal Justice; and an anthology, Freedom on My Mind, to be published by Columbia University Press in 2003. Dr. Marable is also the Director of the newly established Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University. The Center’s projects include: the Malcolm X Project, that is constructing a web-based, multimedia version of The Autobiography of Malcolm X; the Africana Criminal Justice Project, funded by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), that focuses on strategies to empower ex-prisoners and communities devastated by mass incarceration; and the Hip Hop Initiative, in collaboration with Russell Simmons, using arts education for youth leadership development. The Center also publishes the quarterly academic publication Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, edited by Dr. Marable and distributed by Taylor and Francis. Since 1976, he has written a political commentary series, “Along the Color Line,” that appears in over four hundred newspapers and journals worldwide. He is regularly featured in national and international media. He donates much of his time fundraising and speaking on behalf of prisoners’ rights, labor, civil rights, faith-based institutions, and other social justice organizations. Dr. Marable lectures annually in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, in a Master’s Degree Program for prisoners. BACK TO CONTACTS
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