![]() ![]() Malcolm’s presence is beautifully rendered, but “The Dead Are Arising,” which was ultimately completed by Payne’s daughter and principal researcher, Tamara Payne, is not a tribute or enshrinement of achievements. Payne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who devoted nearly 30 years to the book before his death in 2018, meets these needs intermittently, but that is not his primary goal. Readers may pick up this biography hoping for a celebration of Black pride and resilience in the midst of madness. The book’s subject, Malcolm X, knows this place well, though he died in 1965. Les Payne’s “The Dead Are Arising” arrives in late 2020, bequeathed to an America choked by racism and lawlessness. THE DEAD ARE ARISING The Life of Malcolm X By Les Payne and Tamara Payne ![]()
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