Keynote Speaker: Zaheer Ali
Under the direction of the late Manning Marable, Zaheer Ali
served as one of the project managers and senior researchers of the
Malcolm X Project (MXP) at Columbia University, a multi-year
research initiative on the life and legacy of Malcolm X. As project
manager, he was associate editor of an online annotated multimedia
version of The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2004), and later
contributed as a lead researcher to Marable's comprehensive
biography Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011). This spring
(2012), he is teaching a course entitled “Malcolm X: A Life of
(R)Evolution” at the City College of New York. He is currently a
doctoral student in history at Columbia University, where he is
focusing his research on twentieth-century African-American history
and religion. His dissertation examines the history of the Nation
of Islam's Temple/Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, New York, from
1954-1965.
In his life of just under 40 years, Malcolm X emerged as one of
the most prominent and outspoken advocates for human rights in the
20th century. Yet, in spite of (and maybe even because of) the
popularity of his widely read Autobiography, much of Malcolm X’s
life remains shrouded in legend. Drawing on the research used in
the late Manning Marable’s 2011 best-seller Malcolm X: A Life of
Reinvention, this interactive multimedia presentation will address
common myths about Malcolm X and explore how historians produce new
knowledge about our past.
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Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Time: 5 p.m.
Location: Marillac Terrace, Queens
Campus
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