Tamara Payne served as Les Payne’s principal researcher and completed her father’s seminal work on Malcolm X – an extraordinarily comprehensive and detailed lifelong account of the activist – after his death in 2018. Speaking of the book, Payne said, “I was dedicated not just to the project, but to my father, and to wanting his work to be the best it could be when it was ready to be published. I’m just proud to be in a position to make sure my father’s life work is out there. Dad would always tell us, ‘information is powerful,’ but you need to know it’s there.”