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Episode 5 | w/Mark Anthony Neal

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Wayne State University Historian Danielle McGuire The author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. Neal also talks with […]

Episode 4 | Black Women and Popular Culture

Left of Black # 4w/Mark Anthony NealMonday, October 11, 2010 Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal Discusses Sex-Positive Black Sexuality, Black Women and Popular Culture, Black Respectability and Bishop Eddie Long with Tulane University Sociologist Shayne Lee and University of Missouri Women’s Studies Professor Treva Lindsey. Professor Lee is the author of three […]

Episode 3 w/Mark Anthony Neal

Host Mark Anthony Neal Discusses Sexual Predators with University of Pennsylvania Professor Salamishah Tillet & Florida State University Professor David Ikard. Professor Tillet is Founder of A Long Walk Home, a non-profit organization that uses art therapy and the visual and performance arts to document, to educate and to bring about social change. Professor Ikard […]

Episode 2 w/Mark Anthony Neal

Left of Black’ Host Mark Anthony Neal talks Black masculinity, hip-hop, and disability with spoken word artist and Marshall Scholar Joshua Bennett.

Left of Black  Episode 1 | With Mark Anthony Neal

  Author Zelda Lockhart joins ‘Left of Black’ to discuss her new book ‘Fifth Born II: The One Hundredth Turtle’ and how the issues of homosexuality, violence and shame affect Black communities. Lockhart also discusses her decision to publish independently. theLoop21.com columnist and Morehouse College professor Stephane Dunn discusses her recent essay ’When Mega Churchin’ […]