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Negative Review Of Manning Marable Malcolm X Biography Rejected By Paper

Malcolm X Bio

First Posted: 04/15/11 12:48 PM ET Updated: 06/15/11 06:12 AM ET

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The Washington Post:

A blistering review of historian Manning Marable’s best-selling new biography of Malcolm X was rejected this week by ­TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine devoted to African American perspectives whose editor in chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., is an admirer of Marable’s work.

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