FULL BIO: 'The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X' (Part 5)

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 23, 2020

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Les Payne worked on The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X for 28 years before his death. In this final conversation, his daughter and principal researcher Tamara Payne describes how seeing Malcolm X speak in 1963 changed her father’s life, what drew him to investigative journalism, how he was able to uncover the details of important episodes in Malcolm X’s life that had never been reported before, and how she completed the book.

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