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 author and critic Adam Mansbach in a wide ranging conversation about race, Hip-hop, White Liberalism and contemporary politics and […]
On this episode of Left of Black, guest host and Duke University professor Tsitsi Ella Jaji talks with poet and professor Ed Pavlic about his new book Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners (Published by Fordham University Press). Professor Jaji reviewed Professor Pavlic’s book in the […]
To coincide with the residency of choreographer Rennie Harris at Duke University, The John Hope Franklin Center hosted a panel discussion featuring Harris, Duke University Professor, Curator, and Dance Historian Thomas DeFrantz and members of Rennie Harris Puremovement. The discussion was moderated by Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal.
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Tanisha C. Ford, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, The author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (UNC Press, 2015). Neal and Ford discuss the impact […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Judy Richardson and Charlie Cobb, Jr., veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and visiting activist scholars for The SNCC Digital Gateway Project. Richardson is a film producer, whose credits include the groundbreaking Eyes on the Prize and the […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Anne-Maria Makhulu , Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African + African-American Studies at Duke University The author of Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics and the Struggle for Home (Duke University Press, 2015). Professor Makhulu discusses the politics of […]
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Bettina Love, Associate Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia. The author of Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South,Professor Love talks about her latest project Get […]
Black Studies for the Digital Soul: Upcoming Episodes of Left of Black (Spring 2016) • January 8 – Left of Black on the Root with Bettina Love Full Episode S6:E15 Available on January 11 Bettina Love is the author of Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South […]
In advance of the Duke University course The History of Hip-Hop 6.0 (Spring 2016), the sixth iteration of the pedagogical collaboration between Grammy Award Winning Producer 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit) and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal, the duo discuss what brought them to Hip-Hop and what students might expect throughout the semester.
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Sherie M. Randolph, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican +African Studies at the University of Michigan. Randolph is the author of Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Randolph and […]