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Episode 6 | “Black Studies has always been ahead of its moment” – A Conversation with Petal Samuel
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Petal Samuel , an assistant professor in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Episode 5 | Historian Jakobi Williams on The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Jakobi Williams, an associate professor at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of History and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. He is the author of From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party […]
Episode 4 | Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship with Professor Deondra Rose
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal joined in the studio by Dr. Deondra Rose an assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy with a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on the feedback effects of landmark social policies on the American political landscape. She is the author of Citizens […]
Episode 3 | Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh Mumu Fresh’s “regal combination of black power and Native American pride” (NPR Music) became most apparent on 2017’s pliant Vintage Babies LP, capturing her and collaborator DJ Dummy dreamweaving in and out of upbeat soul jams and […]
Episode 2 | Kaneesha Parsard on the Literature and Visual Culture of the English Speaking Caribbean in the Aftermath of Slavery and Indentureship
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by Kaneesha Parsard. Parsard is a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago where she will begin as an Assistant Professor in 2020. She received her PhD in American studies and African American studies from Yale […]
Episode 1 | Sister President Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Johnetta B. Cole, the former director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; President Emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College; Professor Emerita of Emory College where she retired as the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and African […]
Episode 25: Vernacular Archives of Afro-Asia
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by American Studies scholar, Tao Leigh Goff. Goffe is an Assistant Professor of Africana and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She received her PhD in American Studies from Yale University in 2015. Her work examines the vernacular cultures that emerge from the […]
Episode 24 | Jason Moran on James Reese Europe, The Great Migration and Living in Harlem
Left off Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by musician Jason Moran. Jason Moran is one of modern music’s most vital forces. Through a series of ambitious projects meant to bring jazz to a wider audience – such as the 2007 Duke Performances commission In My Mind, which reimagined Thelonious Monk’s […]
Episode 23 | Tony Award Nominee Camille A. Brown and Grammy Award Winner 9th Wonder in Conversation
In this special episode of Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal and Grammy Award Winning Producer 9th Wonder are joined by choreographer, dancer, and director Camille A. Brown Brown was visiting Duke University as part of her year-long residency at the University with Duke Performances. Camille A. Brown is a prolific Black female choreographer […]
Episode 22 | The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and poet DaMaris B. Hill Author of A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (Bloomsbury, 2019), which Roxanne Gay says, “What you will read here is not just poetry, though. […]
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