Dr. Manning Marable, one of America's most influential and widely read scholars of African American history, passed away on Friday, April 1, 2011 at the age of 60 -- just a few days before the publication of his last book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. He had been working on the book for close to two decades. Marable was Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History, and African-American Studies at Columbia University and was the founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. At Columbia, Marable also established the Center for Contemporary Black History. Here, we present a recording of a talk delivered as the keynote speech at the 2006 Researching New York History Conference at SUNY-Albany, where he talked about one of the core arguments in the Malcom-X biography. It was first broadcast on WRPI-FM as a segment of TALKING HISTORY, a weekly radio show focusing on historical topics (see http://www.talkinghistory.org). Recorded and edited by Prof. Gerald Zahavi, co-host of Talking History.