What does it mean to “become human”? Or to humanize one another instead of racializing one another, which has become so entwined with how we perceive and engage with other people in this American society? In this special holiday episode of Left of Black, host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal is joined by the Duke University […]
Chicago became a hub for African American cultural production and journalism with the ascent of such titanic enterprises like The Chicago Defender and Johnson Publishing, Inc., responsible for printing JET and Ebony magazines. Just how far a reach did these companies, and the people who ran them, have into the Black communities in the Windy […]
What is the influence of Black women over how markets pivot and react to consumer demand? And what is the history behind how American pop culture is influenced by Black women? Dr. Aria S. Halliday, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and program in African American and Africana Studies at the […]
In this special episode of Left of Black, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal sits down with legendary hip-hop producer and long-time friend, Patrick “9th Wonder” Douthit to discuss his legacy in the music industry and his professorship at Duke University and beyond. From rap icon Pete Rock and old school hip-hop to the state of women’s […]
When we think of foster care in the U.S., we hope to see it as a system that is in place to protect the safety of at-risk children who are in abusive homes, providing a way out. However, according to the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at UPENN, Dr. Dorothy E. […]
Is the South as conservative as we think? Or has it always been ground zero for radical Black thinking and organizing of civil rights and labor rights movements? In this special episode of Left of Black, host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal sits with long-time friend and colleague, celebrated historian Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss […]
Black Chicago has been an incubator for some of the most talented and successful artists and entrepreneurs who have really made the city what it is today Author and podcast host Ayana Contreras joins Dr. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss her latest book, Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago, published by University of […]
What is the sound of history in the cadence of Dr. King’s speeches? Rutgers University Professor Maurice O. Wallace (Duke Ph.D, 1995) returned to Durham, NC at Rofhiwa Book Café to discuss his new book King′s Vibrato; Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr., published by Duke University Press. Of “King’s […]
Read until you understand, started as a simple instruction for learning that Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin first heard from her father, Emerson, who tragically passed away when she was only nine years old Those words stuck with her and became the title of her latest publication celebrating the magnificence of Black genius in all walks […]
