Manning Marable, Historian and Social Critic, Dies at 60

The New York Times By WILLIAM GRIMES Published: April 1, 2011 Manning Marable, a leading scholar of black history and a leftist critic of American social institutions and race relations, whose long-awaited biography of Malcolm X, more than a decade in the writing, is scheduled to be published on MondayHis wife, Leith Mullings, said that the cause was not known but that Mr. Marable, who lived in Manhattan, had entered the hospital with pneumonia in early March. In July 2010, he had undergone a double lung transplant. Mr. Marable, a prolific writer and impassioned polemicist, addressed issues of race and economic injustice in numerous works that established him as one of the most forceful and outspoken scholars of African-American history and race relations in the United States. , died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 60. Full Obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/arts/manning-marable-60-historian-and-social-critic.html?_r=1&hpw