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SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Dr. Manning Marable, R.I.P.

SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Dr. Manning Marable, R.I.P.

Dr. Manning Marable, R.I.P.


Manning Marable, celebrated Columbia University professor and top Civil Rights scholar, dies



DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, April 1st 2011, 6:38 PM

Columbia University professor Manning Marable, an expert on African-American history, died Friday just days before his long-awaited biography of Malcolm X is released.
In "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," the 60-year-old scholar was expected to identify an elderly Newark man as