Manning Marable is Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City , where he lives. He is one of the most widely read black progressive authors in the country. Marable’s political commentary series, “Along the Color Line,” appears in more than 320 publications internationally.

Dr. Marable is featured frequently in the national and international media as an expert on the history and politics of race in the United States . He regularly appears on media programs such as the NBC “Today Show,” ABC “Weekend News,” Fox Network News, the “Charlie Rose” show, BBC television and radio, Japanese television, National Public Radio, and the Pacifica Radio Network. Dr. Marable also donates much of his time fundraising and speaking on behalf of prisoners’ rights, civil rights, labor, faith-based institutions, and many social justice organizations.

His seminal work is How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!, writes, “For those of us who came of political age in the 1980s, Manning Marable’s How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America was one of our bibles. Published during the cold winter of Reaganism, he introduced a new generation of Black activists/thinkers to class and gender struggles within Black communities, the political economy of incarceration, the limitations of Black capitalism, and the nearly forgotten vision of what a socialist future might look like. Two decades later, Marable’s urgent and hopeful voice is as relevant as ever.”

He is also the author of Black Liberation in Conservative America (South End Press, 1997), Black Leadership (Columbia University Press), Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics (Verso), and Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance, and Radicalism (Westview).