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He has also ventured into politics, serving as a Republican campaign manager for former State representatives Garey Forster and Sam LeBlanc, a campaign co-ordinator for US Representative Bob Livingston, and twice standing unsuccessfully for election as mayor of New Orleans, his home city in Louisiana.

The hip-hop chapter is also a standout, focusing on how Malcolm became a force in the burgeoning street culture first through his spoken word — Keith LeBlanc’s 1983 cut “No Sell Out” was among the first of what became countless songs to sample his voice — and, later, through the Afrocentric vision of artists including Public Enemy and KRS-One.

LeBlanc began working on this classic of nonfiction reportage while covering the story of a Bronx heroin dealer for Newsday.

LeBlanc never moves her camera away from the ground level; there are no policy prescriptions, no litanies of statistics and no melodramatic statements about pity or persistence.

"In the interim, the leaders agreed that conversations between the Minister of International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs and President of the King's Privy Council for Canada, Dominic LeBlanc, and the United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, will intensify to address immediate concerns," the statement said.