Left of Black S2:E31 | May 7, 2012

Words, Images and Literacy with dream hampton and Professor Elaine Richardson

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by writer and filmmaker dream hampton.  Neal and hampton discuss her passions for writing and visual art, the cultural importance of the city of Detroit, directing her first music video for THEESatisfaction and her collaboration with Jay Z on Decoded (2010) and the unpublished The Black Book.

Later, Neal is joined via Skype by Ohio State University Professor Elaine Richardson aka Dr. E..  An nationally regarded expert on literacy among Black youth, Richardson is also an accomplished vocalist.  Neal and Richardson discuss balancing her academic career with her artistic career, her forthcoming memoir, PGD 2 PHD, which details her transition from a life on the streets, and the 2012 HipHop Literacies Conference (Ohio State University, May 9-11) which she curated.

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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