June - September 1998
Dr. Manning Marable is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. As a political activist, social critic, educator, author, and historian, Manning Marable is considered one of America's preeminent commentators on the Black American experience. His public affairs commentary series "Along the Color Line" appears in three hundred newspapers. Working as an adviser to the Congressional Black Caucus, Marable actively engages in issues of national educational reform and cultural pluralism. His numerous books, including The Crisis of Color and Democracy; Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America; How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America; and Black Liberation in Conservative America, address issues of race, gender, and history in the Black American experience.
