Malcolm X: the Facts and the Fictions

Discover the monumental new biography of one of the 20th century’s most relevant figures, 30 years in the making and now a finalist for a National Book Award.

Featuring

  • Tamara Payne, researcher and editor, The Dead Are Arising
  • Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church

The Dead Are Arising Book Cover

In 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne embarked on what would become a nearly 30-year quest to reconstruct the life and death of Malcolm X by interviewing anyone he could find who had actually known him. Payne spoke to all the living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. The result, The Dead Are Arising, is an epic biography that rewrites much of the known narrative, conjuring a never-before-seen world of its protagonist from his birth in Nebraska in 1925 to his assassination in New York in 1965.

Les Payne passed away in 2018, before he could complete the book. His daughter and lead researcher, Tamara Payne, heroically completed it. Joined by other members of the Payne family, she will speak with Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church, about her father’s life and work, and his book that reaffirms the centrality of Malcolm X in political life.

Produced in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 

LIVE from NYPL is made possible by the support of Library patrons and friends, as well as by the continuing generosity of Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund.











When: Mon., Oct. 26, 2020 at 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: Free
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Discover the monumental new biography of one of the 20th century’s most relevant figures, 30 years in the making and now a finalist for a National Book Award.

Featuring

  • Tamara Payne, researcher and editor, The Dead Are Arising
  • Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church

The Dead Are Arising Book Cover

In 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne embarked on what would become a nearly 30-year quest to reconstruct the life and death of Malcolm X by interviewing anyone he could find who had actually known him. Payne spoke to all the living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. The result, The Dead Are Arising, is an epic biography that rewrites much of the known narrative, conjuring a never-before-seen world of its protagonist from his birth in Nebraska in 1925 to his assassination in New York in 1965.

Les Payne passed away in 2018, before he could complete the book. His daughter and lead researcher, Tamara Payne, heroically completed it. Joined by other members of the Payne family, she will speak with Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church, about her father’s life and work, and his book that reaffirms the centrality of Malcolm X in political life.

Produced in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 

LIVE from NYPL is made possible by the support of Library patrons and friends, as well as by the continuing generosity of Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund.

Buy tickets/get more info now