Authors talked about the late Columbia University Black Studies scholar Manning Marable's biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Professor Williams moderated. The panelists also responded to questions from members of the audience.

"Manning Marable's Malcom X: Living Black History in the 21st Century" was a panel of the 14th annual Harlem Book Fair from the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.