Manning Marable, Historian and Social Critic, Dies at 60 William Grimes, New York Times | April 1, 2011 Manning Marable, a leading scholar of black history and a leftist critic of American social institutions and race relations, whose long-awaited biography of Malcolm X, more than a decade in the writing, is scheduled to be published on … Continue reading Manning Marable, Historian and Social Critic, Dies at 60