By Les Payne and Tamara Payne 640 pages; Liveright $35.00 I had entered Bushnell Hall as a Negro with a capital N and I wandered out in the parking lot as a black man, late African American journalist Les Payne wrote in his 2002 essay The Night I Stopped Being A Negro. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsday investigative reporter was one of 60 African American students present when Malcolm X spoke to the University of Connecticut in June 1963.
This story and many others is described in the latest biography on the Black icon,
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
After Payne s death from a heart attack on March 19, 2018, at 76, his daughter and principal researcher Tamara finished her dad s labor of love. Thirty years in the making and deeply sourced, the biography adds to our understanding of one of the 20th century s more consequential leaders.
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Book excerpt: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
A National Book Award winner for Best Nonfiction of 2020, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (Liveright) was begun nearly three decades ago by Les Payne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and completed by his daughter, researcher Tamara Payne.
The book sets the story of Malcolm Little s life against the backdrop of American history, and through hundreds of hours of interviews the authors conjure a biography that rewrites the known arc of the human rights advocate s life and death.
Read the introduction to the book below.
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