Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. LaKisha Simmons , an associate professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans (University of North Carolina Press 2015), which […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by, Critic and curator Oulimata Guéye to discuss her research focused on the impact of digital technology on urban popular culture in Africa, and on the imaginary worlds it produces.
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Peter Cole an assistant professor in the Department of History at Western Illinois University. His latest book Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press 2018), won the Philip Taft Labor History Book […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Left of Black S2:E28 | April 16, 2012 Taking It Like a Man? Black Men, Mental Health and the Power of Mentoring Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Wizdom Powell, professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of […]