THE DEAD ARE ARISINGThe Life of Malcolm XBy Les Payne and Tamara PayneLes Payne’s “The Dead Are Arising” arrives in late 2020, bequeathed to an America choked by racism and lawlessness. The book’s subject, Malcolm X, knows this place well, though he died in 1965. Instead, it reconstructs the conditions and key moments of Malcolm’s life, thanks to hundreds of original interviews with his family, friends, colleagues and adversaries. His father, Earl Little, died when Malcolm (born Malcolm Little) was 6, the victim of a streetcar accident that Malcolm later suspected was a cover-up for the work of a racist mob. They could not nurture Malcolm through childhood, but they steeled him with the truth: He owed white people nothing.

Source: New York Times October 19, 2020 14:01 UTC