A few months before Manning Marable's sudden death, the acclaimed scholar and activist shot a series of videos to promote his long-awaited biography of Malcolm X.
The videos were to be released as teasers, one by one, for what has become a controversial examination of Malcolm X's life. His death though, just days before the book was set for release, threw the final production of the videos into limbo, as his family came to grips with their grief.
"It has been really hard," said filmmaker Michael Tyner, Marable's stepson and the producer of the videos. "The fourth episode was about two-thirds done when he passed."
Marable died on a Friday, and the book was to be released on the following Monday.
"And the next day I'm sitting there and I have to edit this footage, and it's like, a piece of him that's still living," Tyner continued. "In a lot of ways we all had to make sacrifices and not grieve as much and keep going the way Manning would want."
The biography, 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,' will debut at #3 on 'The New York Times' bestsellers list on April 24, according to a publicist of Marable's work.
Below, exclusively at AOL Black Voices, is the fourth installment of the Marable videos, which discusses the speech at the Columbia University School of Journalism that likely sealed Malcolm X's fate.
The previous videos can be found on a Youtube channel called Malcolmology.