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From: Progressive and Critical Sociologist Network [mailto:PSN-CS at LISTS.WAYNE.EDU] On Behalf Of George Snedeker Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:33 PM To: PSN-CS at LISTS.WAYNE.EDU Subject: [PSN-CS] Manning Marable
Manning Marable, African-American Studies Scholar, Has Died at 60 By LARRY ROHTER Manning Marable, the author of a long-awaited new biography of Malcolm X to be published Monday and director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, died Friday at the age of 60, his wife, Leith Mullings, has confirmed. He had been hospitalized with pneumonia last month, and last summer had a double lung transplant meant to relieve him of sarcoidosis, a lung disease from which he had suffered for a quarter century. A full obituary will appear later.