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Two of Malcolm X's daughters take issue with a recent biography of their father that alleges the marriage between Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz was strained, and that both partners may have been unfaithful. Black academicians are having coronaries about the book: "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," written by renowned Black historian Manning Marable.
Marable worked on the book for 20 years and died days before its publication in April 2011.
In conducting his research, Marable used Malcolm X's personal papers and a letter to Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Elijah Muhammad where he talks about his wife's sexual frustrations and says she had threatened to "seek satisfaction elsewhere."
A major body of work, Marable's "Malcolm X" includes interviews, source documents and theories long bandied about, but never fully denied or proven to be true. Malcolm X's death has long been shrouded by the dealings of that era: informants, infighting among Black militants, power struggles within the NOI and allegations of the abysmal handling of the initial investigation....