In this special episode of Left of Black, recorded with a live audience at Letters Bookshop in Durham, NC, author Bert Ashe and Filmmaker Natalie Bullock Brown Joined host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal in a conversation about the politics of Black Hair and Beauty. Ashe is an Associate Professor of English at […]
In this special episode of Left of Black, recorded with a live audience, host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined at the John Hope Franklin Center by award-winning chef, educator, and author Bryant Terry In a wide-ranging conversation on Food Justice as Social Justice. Terry is the author of several books including […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined on-location by Monica R. Miller , Natanya Duncan and Jessica Marie Johnson at Lehigh University Inspired by James Braxton Peterson’s concept of “Playlist Pedagogy,” the group discusses their top-5 of Social Justice Agents and songs that conjure Black intimacy.
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Bakari Kitwana , veteran journalist and activist Neal and Kitwana discuss the founding of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the impact of down ballot elections in the context of anti-Black police violence. Kitwana is […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Rev. Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman, Director of Black Church Studies at Duke University and the author of Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon (Palgrave Macmillan). Neal and Professor Marshall Turman […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Dr. Valerie Ashby, Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University. A noted chemist, Professor Ashby discusses her ascension through the profession as a Black Woman, how the pursuit of diversity is not antithetical to the pursuit […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Cicely Mitchell, co-founder of the Art of Cool Project and co-Curator of the Art of Cool Festival. Billed as progressive jazz and alternative soul music festival located in downtown Durham, NC, the Art of Cool Festival runs from May 6-8 […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Alisha Lola Jones, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Jones and Neal discuss her research on Gospel Music and the performances of Black Masculinity, the career of Anthony Charles Williams II (B.Slade/Tonex), and her Top-5 of Gospel #turnups.
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Simone C. Drake Associate Professor of African American an African Studies at The Ohio State University Drake is the author Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity (LSU Press) and the forthcoming When We Imagine […]
On this special episode of Left of Black, recorded with a live audience at Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by two-time Lambda Award Winner Alexis De Veaux. De Veaux is the author of Yabo, which won the 2015 Lambda […]