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Left of Black S2:E20 | Critic Greg Tate Talks Black Science Fiction, Consuming Black Culture & the Late Butch Morris To understand the impact of Greg Tate, one need only consult the words of fellow critic Michael Gonzales, who on the occasion of Tate’s 50th birthday wrote: “For better or worse, if it were not […]
Left of Black S3:E19 | The Black Revolution on Campus & the Roots Black Studies In January of 1969, WCBS-TV in New York City began to broadcast a series of half-hour lectures under the banner of Black Heritage: A History of Afro-Americans. The series, which ran six days a week until June of 1969 (108 […]
Left of Black S3:E18 | Roe v. Wade & Reproductive Justice Forty years ago the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade legally protected a woman’s right to have an abortion, yet for women of color—poor women of color in particular—Roe v. Wade has offered little protection in their desires to fully pursue reproductive justice. […]
Left of Black S3:E17 | Slavery in the Post Civil Rights Imagination; Black Radicalism in the Muslim Third World Imagination In her new book Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post Civil Rights Imagination (Duke University Press), University of Pennsylvania Professor Salamishah Tillet examines the ways Black artists and writers have democratized […]
Left of Black S3:E16 | Dr. Luke Powery Discusses His New Book—‘Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death and Hope’ In a year marked by no less than sixteen mass shootings in the United States, including shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the murder of twenty children […]
Left of Black S3:E15 | Filmmaker Byron Hurt Discusses His New Film Soul Food Junkies and Django Unchained Byron Hurt’s late father was like the many Americans whose unhealthy diets led to a shortened lifespan. Alarmed by what he saw as a problem among African Americans, Byron Hurt, whose last film was the award-winning Hip-Hop: […]
Filmmaker Byron Hurt Talks About His New Film Soul Food Junkies on the Spring Premiere of ‘Left of Black’ Byron Hurt’s late father was like the many Americans whose unhealthy diets led to a shortened lifespan. Alarmed by what he saw as a problem among African Americans, Byron Hurt, whose last film was the award-winning […]
Left of Black S3:E13 | Cable News, ‘Scary’ Black People & Black Nerds Journalist Eric Deggans, Television & Media Critic for The Tampa Bay Times, is one of a handful of Black journalists working in such positions at major newspapers in the United States. From his perch, Deggans has a unique vantage to gauge the […]
Left of Black S3:E12 | The Politics of Pleasure and the Power of Alternative Politics December 3, 2012 For more than twenty-years Joan Morgan, journalist, feminist thinker, and author of the classic When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life As a Hip-Hop Feminist, has been at the forefront of questions regarding the intersections of […]
Left of Black S3:E11 | Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia November 26, 2012 On Thursday, November 8, 2012, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) sponsored Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia: A Symposium on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. The event featured Jack Halberstam, Professor […]
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