Tamara Payne accepts the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction for THE DEAD ARE ARISING
Channel: National Book Foundation
Date: 2020-11-23

Pulitzer Prize winner Les Payne set out to interview anyone who had ever known Malcolm X, and after his death in 2018, his daughter and researcher Tamara Payne completed his work.
Tamara Payne accepts the award for the National Book Award for Nonfiction, which was presented by panel chair Terry Tempest Williams. 
Also featured: National Book Awards Ceremony host Jason Reynolds and voiceover by Marc Maron.

THE DEAD ARE ARISING: THE LIFE OF MALCOLM X 
by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company

www.nationalbook.org/awards2020