Alex Haley

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/15/2023
  

  Could Alex Haley's False Quotation of MLK Have Changed History?

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  By exaggerating the conflict between Martin and Malcolm, Haley helped feed a narrative of the two men's approaches to politics as irreconcilable instead of as facets of a more complex struggle for freedom. It has probably helped to push radical demands for justice to the margins. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/10/2023
  

  Alex Haley Fabricated Quotes Portraying MLK as Implacable Critic of Malcolm X, Biographer Finds

  by Gillian Brockell

  Jonathan Eig tracked down a secretary's transcript of writer Alex Haley's interview with Martin Luther King and found that Haley seriously misrepresented King's response to Malcolm's militant approach to the Black freedom struggle, contributing to longstanding misunderstanding of King's views and relationship to other political factions. 

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• 6/10/18
  

  The Pulitzer's Gentlemen's Agreement

  by Philip Nobile

  An open letter to the Pulitzer Board about its indifference to Alex Haley’s "deliberate deception" in his prize-winning "Roots."

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• 4/20/18
  

  The Prize that Taints the Pulitzer's Ethics and Honor

  by Philip Nobile

  It's the Pulitzer that went to Alex Haley’s tarnished blockbuster, “Roots.”

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• 2/25/18
  

  The Strange Evolution of Henry Louis Gates's Estimate of Alex Haley and “Roots”

  by Philip Nobile

  Haley went from a blacklist to beatitude.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  

  Roots and genes

  by Alondra Nelson

  ‘Roots’ sparked an African-American quest for identity through family history. Does DNA finally provide firm grounds?

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• 11-27-15
  

  This Is Why We Ought to Remember Alex Haley, Warts and All

  by Robert J. Norrell

  He wrote two of the most influential books on black history and sold more books than any other black author.