"His Major Contribution Was Pushing the Envelope in Terms of Racial Discourse"

"In an interview, Mr. Joseph said that if Ture has received less attention than some other civil rights leaders, it was largely because he went to Africa and was not martyred like Dr. King and Malcolm X, both killed at 39. And in the sound-bite landscape, Mr. Joseph said, the complexity of Ture 'makes him a difficult subject,' one that he relished introducing to a new generation."


Felicia R. Lee in The New York Times talks to Peniel E. Joseph, and others, about his new biography of Stokely Carmichael.


And William Jelani Cobb reviews the book.