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The tales of two men with distinctly different fates in the Revolutionary War are told through Hartford and Tolland County monuments.

By Les Payne and Tamara Payne 640 pages; Liveright $35.00 "I had entered Bushnell Hall as a Negro with a capital N and I wandered out in the parking lot as a black man," late African American journalist Les Payne wrote in his 2002 essay "The Night I Stopped Being A Negro." The Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsday investigative reporter was one of 60 African American students present when Malcolm X spoke to the University of Connecticut in June 1963. This story — and many others — is described in the latest biography on the Black icon,  The Dead Are A...

CBS News Book excerpt: "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X" A National Book Award winner for Best Nonfiction of 2020, "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X" (Liveright) was begun nearly three decades ago by Les Payne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and completed by his daughter, researcher Tamara Payne. The book sets the story of Malcolm Little's life against the backdrop of American history, and through hundreds of hours of interviews the authors conjure a biography that rewrites the known arc of the human rights advocate's life and death. Read the introduction to the ...

right here, 688 on the southbound side, a bug spray spill. a haz-mat situation. three lanes are blocked and northbound is blocked because they are slowing down to see what the commotion is. move over to more slowing westbound 580 through livermore and through sunol. the remainder of the morning commute sticking around. a hefty flow of traffic causing slowing here at east bay. 880 past the coliseum, look at this jammed up right past odot. >> mike, for the latest traffic and news updates, check out the nbc bay area morn news page on face pook. another update in half an hour. two years ...

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