This week we paid tribute to Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – Feb. 21, 1965) and Chuck Brown (August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012). We invited Kali Akuno, Eugene Puryear, Raymond Winbush, Herb Boyd and Todd Steven Burroughs all to discuss our work that responds to Manning Marable’s final award-winning book on Malcolm X and we re-aired portions of the late Gil Noble’s Like It Is tribute to Malcolm X. Noble’s program was brilliant and portions we aired today included rarely-heard interviews with Malcolm’s brother Wilfred Little and family lawyer Percy Sutton, as well as, some equally rare audio of Malcolm himself. In between we honored the legendary Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown. This was a fun and an extended special edition of The Super Funky Soul Power Hour!
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Just wondering if the ideological agenda of alex haley came under the same scrutiny with respect to the autobiography as marable’s with respect to the reinvention?
Petr: Absolutely, in fact, Marable is only the latest to assail Haley’s motives and involvement! Marable has been attacking Haley (attacks with which i actually agree by the way) for years, writing in an earlier book that, “Haley’s integrationist interpretation of Malcolm X’s career nearly dispossessed the black leader from his pan-Africanist militancy and black internationalism.” And yet Marable would return to do the same thing and more.
appreciated your last sentence in answer to my inquiry.