“The Dead Are Arising”: New Biography on Malcolm X’s Childhood, Killing & Secret Meeting with KKK

We speak with the co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” which recently won the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and offers a sweeping account of Malcolm X’s life by weaving together hundreds of interviews with Malcolm X’s family, friends, colleagues and enemies. The book is based on decades of research by Les Payne, who died in 2018, and finished by his daughter, Tamara Payne. “The reason why he admired Malcolm is because Malcolm was dealing with the conditions that Black people are facing even internally and how we viewed ourselves in this situation,” she says, and describes how her father lived through the civil rights movement and strongly connected with Malcolm X’s teachings.
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  • @pontevedra660
    @pontevedra6603 жыл бұрын

    Malcolm X, what a noble human being! There has never been anyone like him. Bendiciones..... Mercy and Lové.

  • @vondbee7091

    @vondbee7091

    Жыл бұрын

    & there is to be no other like yourself 😉

  • @mharm1017
    @mharm10173 жыл бұрын

    I have to admit that every time I was around Elder Yuri I made sure to hold her hands knowing that she had touched Brother Malcolm.

  • @jjutt87
    @jjutt873 жыл бұрын

    God Bless Malcolm X, his daughters and all who help to carry his torch for human rights and the pursuit of justice!

  • @ese_cholito

    @ese_cholito

    3 жыл бұрын

    He got killed because of his pro-violence rhetoric. If he didn't get killed by an assassin he would have been killed on the street by the authorities while he was pushing the violence. Maybe he would live on to continue his stochastic terrorism.

  • @jjutt87

    @jjutt87

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ese_cholito... I'm assuming you haven't read his autobiography. ...just watch Who Killed Malcolm X on NETFLIX and get back to me. "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

  • @ese_cholito

    @ese_cholito

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@jjutt87 MalcomX was a black identity extremist. He supported segregating blacks and whites. A violent hate-monger.

  • @michaelsmith8665

    @michaelsmith8665

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ese_cholito He recognized that segregation was reality and that there had to be unity among the racially oppressed before there could be any effective tactical alliance with even the most well-meaning whites .. . And he advocated "violence" only in self-defense, which nearly everyone agrees with.

  • @ese_cholito

    @ese_cholito

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelsmith8665 Lmao... justifying segregation. He didn't believe there could be unity with "whites" and "blacks".

  • @ernestrhodes2621
    @ernestrhodes26213 жыл бұрын

    Love the book. The best book of Malcolm. Thank you Les Payne. I going to purchase more.

  • @hellyeahisaidit
    @hellyeahisaidit3 жыл бұрын

    Finished it last night. Great book!!!! 🔥🔥🔥✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿💯💯💯

  • @governor_carter
    @governor_carter3 жыл бұрын

    This book is a must read. I adore this work with everything within me 🖤

  • @hattanalshutaifi4587
    @hattanalshutaifi45873 жыл бұрын

    Malcolm x was one of the greatest most important and significant freedom fighter activist revolutionary Muslim black man and human being in history

  • @AudioPervert1

    @AudioPervert1

    3 жыл бұрын

    there's a high possibility that Malcolm X and James Baldwin would totally shit (or laugh) at the BLM movement in America. The reasons are many, as we see and read their views (very honest) about populism and the white appropriation of anything non-white. This biography business, is just to earn money, just like idiotic cultural waves of Afro-futurism eventually make it hollywood to earn even more money.

  • @Mshighyellow

    @Mshighyellow

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AudioPervert1 STFU

  • @ese_cholito

    @ese_cholito

    3 жыл бұрын

    Malcom X was an islamic black identity extremist that promoted violence and ultimately got what he advocated for.

  • @bluetoad2001

    @bluetoad2001

    3 жыл бұрын

    Malcolm was an inspiration to this white guy. Malcolm spoke truth to power. Malcolm was searching for truth

  • @hattanalshutaifi4587

    @hattanalshutaifi4587

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bluetoad2001 so true even Arab and Muslim where inspired by Malcolm x

  • @beebom8407
    @beebom84073 жыл бұрын

    Malcolm X sounded like a strong, articulate, charismatic, and intelligent leader (the very qualities his enemies hated and feared). If he had been allowed to live longer, it’s hard to imagine what more he could have had contributed to the cause of Black independence and other issues, i.e., racial equality, better life for African Americans, etc.

  • @ese_cholito

    @ese_cholito

    3 жыл бұрын

    He was an advocate of brutal violence, and i would argue in some ways a black supremacist.

  • @lemurianchick

    @lemurianchick

    3 жыл бұрын

    I listen to Black talk radio and listeners (Black) have mentioned more than once that the Black community is the only community that needs leaders. Black people are not children. They can think for themselves. Not all Black folks are down with abortion even though 40% of all abortions in the USA are done on Black women, who probably comprise 6% of the total population. Some Black people are conservative. Some are against illegal immigration. A better life starts with better choices. These cannot be legislated. Encouraging financial independence is a conservative ideal according to the Dims. Trump has actually funded Black empowerment zones. Did Obomba do jack shit? Oh and the best part is that Malcolm X has White liberals' number. He didn't buy their nice act for a moment. He saw how they usurped the civil rights movement just like Black Lives Matter often has mostly White faces in the crowd.

  • @NoName-rg3np

    @NoName-rg3np

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ese_cholito No. He just wasn't against using the same violence used against blacks to attain their freedom from oppression. Calling someone speaking up for other people's rights who, consequently, gets shot and killed for speaking up for those rights a "black supremacist" is about the most ignorant shit I've ever heard.

  • @beebom8407

    @beebom8407

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ese_cholito. From what was published on his speeches, that’s a recourse he’d consider if the oppression became too much to bear. You aught to remember too that White supremacists have already committed the violence Malcolm was just talking about as a possible option. Grave oppression make some of the oppressed people fight back. Could you blame them for their long historical oppression?!

  • @ese_cholito

    @ese_cholito

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@beebom8407 racism comes fr both sides. If white racists are inexcusable then neither are black ones. If one is acceptable then all racism is acceptable. No playing favorites just to larp around as a social justice warrior.

  • @silkyrobinson5079
    @silkyrobinson50793 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Amy, Tamara, and to your father. Malcom Xs autobiography touched me deeply, and I reccomend it also, to everyone.

  • @georgethompson8879
    @georgethompson88792 жыл бұрын

    Malcolm x was not a civil rights leader Malcolm x was a human rights leader

  • @vondbee7091

    @vondbee7091

    Жыл бұрын

    I'd say both

  • @somelucifrostguy9208
    @somelucifrostguy9208 Жыл бұрын

    Finished it today. I read his Autobiography last year, and when I realized BHM had already come, I put down my copy of The Power Broker in favor of this and thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • @powerplay4real174
    @powerplay4real174 Жыл бұрын

    Philbert was afraid of the NOI & FOI so he turned on Malcolm X ,and it came out later and it's understood the he was very sorry about his behaviors of turn his back on Malcolm ,but Wilbert was on Malcolm X side for certain. ⚖️

  • @BlakaveliX
    @BlakaveliX3 жыл бұрын

    I've been reading the book. It's great so far. I love the application of historical context while exploring his life.

  • @kkthedrummer8999
    @kkthedrummer89993 жыл бұрын

    One of the killer's in prison the one with the shot gun died but it's 3 still out there free let's keep getting justice

  • @vondbee7091

    @vondbee7091

    Жыл бұрын

    It's All to da good, baby.

  • @Karlitos.Reviews
    @Karlitos.Reviews3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome Book

  • @mikelock5033
    @mikelock50333 жыл бұрын

    Y'all do know that Malcolm was a student, right? 🤔🤨

  • @jamessharp6800

    @jamessharp6800

    3 жыл бұрын

    also that they killed his daddy by running over him with a streetcar in Lansing Michigan,right down the road from me...Also there were more KKK in Michigan than in then in a lot of the south in the 20s...

  • @vondbee7091

    @vondbee7091

    Жыл бұрын

    Elaborate further

  • @StandMan-ps8hc
    @StandMan-ps8hc3 жыл бұрын

    Good people do good work but ah, Tamara Payne.. is a little cutie pie.😀 And the interview wasn't long enough. 😑

  • @thefruitshowstheroot7844
    @thefruitshowstheroot78443 жыл бұрын

    Please stop bringing up old chyt. It's 2020 and everybody still wanna play victim.

  • @bhaine13

    @bhaine13

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nobody plays that better than the toddler who wouldn't leave the White House

  • @lemurianchick

    @lemurianchick

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bhaine13 A person who won the biggest landslide election in the history of this nation should NEVER concede. It's appalling that there so many morally bereft people who participated in this shameful fraud in perhaps every state of the nation. I guess you are one of them and that is why you are on here trying to imply that Trump lost. If only people had a spiritual understanding of life and themselves. So many people go to their graves as lost souls.

  • @bhaine13

    @bhaine13

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lemurianchick Speaking of lost souls how about the evangelicals that are following a man who sleeps with pornstars, tells the world that he alone can fix their problems ( contrary to what Jesus teaches ) watches his supporters protest on his behalf while he plays golf and denied a virus that he caught that killed hundreds of thousands of people .This man is making Jim Jones look like Gandhi .

  • @Billiepippen

    @Billiepippen

    3 жыл бұрын

    YET YOU PEOPLE USE THE PAST TO JUSTIFY YOUR STATUS TODAY....

  • @Billiepippen

    @Billiepippen

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Thomas Jeffries ITS called causality. i inherit the nothing and whites inherit the ill gotten wealth even though such laws prevent such laws from being,they still benefit from slavery and jim crow today while i am disadvantaged from it