The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XLes Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty year long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews