This one rocks me to my soul.  I knew I had “arrived” as a Black press columnist in the 1990s when I was on the same Op-Ed page as Manning Marable. Damn.

It is hard to express how sad I am that we, not he, will reap the rewards of his 35 years of work, tomorrow and beyond. These remembrances say it much better than I could.

Here is an excerpt from the new book.