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Episode 21 | The Best of Enemies
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio with film director Robin Bissell to talk about his latest project, The Best of Enemies. Robin Bissell made his directorial debut with the film The Best of Enemies which tells the true story of civil rights activist, Ann Atwater and the leader of […]
Episode 20 | Stew & The Negro Problem – Notes of a Native Song
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Stew Stewart of Stew & The Negro Problem to discuss his music, his work on James Baldwin, and his teaching. Stew & The Negro Problem recently performed Notes of a Native Song – written for Harlem Stage’s Baldwin centenary celebration and named for […]
Episode 19 | Sylvia Chan-Malik on A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor Sylvia Chan-Malik Author of Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam (New York University Press, 2018), which Zareena Grewal describes as a ” fascinating cultural history of Islam in the United States will surprise readers with […]
Episode 18 | E .Patrick Johnson on the Oral Histories of Black. Queer. Southern. Women
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and artist, E. Patrick Johnson Author of innumerable books including two award-winning books, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Duke University Press, 2003), and Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South – An Oral History (University of North […]
Episode 17 | Curating The Legacy of Dick Gregory
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Christian Gregory A chiropractor in Washington, DC, Dr. Gregory is one of the eleven children of the legendary comedian, civil rights activist, and social critic, Dr. Gregory joined Neal to discuss the life and legacy of his father.
Episode 16 | Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century with Kehinde Andrews
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor Kehinde Andrews , author of Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (ZED, 2018) Afua Hirsch says “takes the concepts that underpin so much of our woolly, contemporary talk about blackness, structural racism, pan-Africanism and – most of […]
Episode 15 | Robert Reid-Pharr on Aging, Living Life as an Intellectual and the of Black Queer Studies
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor Robert Reid-Pharr Author of many books including Conjugal Union: The Body, The House, and the Black American (Oxford University Press, 1999), Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (New York University Press, 2007), and most recently, Archives […]
Episode 14 | Ingrid LaFleur Discusses AFROTOPIA
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by artist, activist, and Afrofuturist, Ingrid LaFleur. Her mission is to ensure equal distribution of the future, exploring the frontiers of social justice through new technologies, economies, and modes of government. As a recent Detroit Mayoral candidate and founder and director of AFROTOPIA, LaFleur implements […]
Episode 13 | Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the1960s – a Conversation with Christopher Tinson
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and historian, Christopher Tinson, author of Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), which Jennifer Guglielmo describes as, “An illuminating, nuanced, and beautifully written history that explores community-based print culture as a […]
Episode 12 | “Waiting for Happiness” – a Conversation with Nijah Cunningham
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Nijah Cunningham. Cunningham is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. He is also an assistant professor of English at Hunter College. He specializes in African American and African diasporic literature and his fields […]
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