Beschreibung:
Les Payne (1941-2018) was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist. He served as an editor and columnist at Newsday and was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all 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. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction.