dr. marable worked with them on them now comex project and dr. ble was instrumental to use his influence at columbia to reopen the site of the former ballroom that is now the memorial center because columbia was part owner of the site. dr. marable selz very deeply toward making sure malcolm and his family recede to justice as a type of memorial that is worthy of malcolm work and as a historian, also felt committed to giving us a comprehensive portrait of malcolm with all of his humanity and understandably, this is not a think story and malcolm would be the first to say he is not a saint. but this portrait of malcolm with the complexity is one that is sympathetic, at critical and malcolm is a deeply compelling figure. >> host: what is your background? >> researcher, a student at columbia university where it have been involved with no come since high-school when i have read the autobiography in much of my research has focused on the history of islam in america especially the african-american community. my family is from trinidad i grew up outside wa

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