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Reminder: Marable Memorials to be Streamed

Sun, Oct 23, 2011

The life of Manning Marable, author and founding director of the Africana and Latin American Studies Program at Colgate, will be celebrated Monday with two campus events that will be webcast live.

Marable died April 1 at age 60.

Marable was at Colgate from 1983 to 1987, teaching a range of courses including African American Social Thought and African American Freedom Struggles. His book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, was published just three days after his death. It was nominated for the National Book Award.

The two Monday events are open to the public and also available online. No special software is needed to view the live webcasts.

Listen to this extensive interview with Marable on public radio's Studio 360.

The events:

4:15 p.m., Love Auditorium
Keynote address by Clayborne Carson, professor of history and the founding director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Foundation. His topic will be "Manning Marable on the Integrity of Leadership and Scholarship in History's Greatest Freedom Struggle."

7:30 p.m., Love Auditorium
Three scholars, Robyn Spencer (Lehman College), Russell Rickford (Dartmouth College), and Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence University) will discuss Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.

Source: Colgate

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