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What is Left of Black?

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Left of Black is the Webby Awards-nominated web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars and artists created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal.

The series is produced at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.

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Episode 9 | Dr. Treva B. Lindsey on Violence, Black Women, And The Struggle For Justice

Why are Black women and girls the target of multiple forms of violence? Domestic violence in the home presents its own challenges, but what about the state-sanctioned violence that African…

Episode 8 | Black Duke Students on the End of the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship

Reginaldo “Reggie” Howard was the first African American President of the Associated Students of Duke University, which was essential to undergraduate student government He had a lot of big ideas…

Episode 7 | Dr. Thema Bryant on Black Church and Mental Health

Healing trauma in the African American community is often caught between either seeking professional mental health services or relying on faith leaders in the Black church Dr. Thema Bryant, the…

Episode 6 | Small Talk at FHI with Author Nabil Ayers

Author Nabil Ayers, born from the union between a white, Jewish, former ballerina and American funk, soul, and jazz musician Roy Ayers, joins the Webby Award-nominated podcast “Left of Black”…

Episode 5 | Gladys Mitchell-Walthour on the Growing Trope of the Afro-Brazilian “Welfare Queen”

Many political and economic comparisons are made between the U.S. and Brazil, citing them both as the largest democracies in the Western hemisphere.  Many political and economic comparisons are made…

Episode 4 | Black Maternal Health with Deirdre Cooper Owens

James Marion Sims, the “father” of gynecology, walked a horrific path towards medical innovation that involved inhumane and perverse experiments conducted on enslaved women in the 19th century His legacy,…

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