On this episode of Left of Black, Timothy Anne Burnside, a curatorial specialist at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) In Washington, D.C. joins host Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black studio at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. Burnside and Neal discuss the impact and importance […]
On this episode of Left of Black, Sociologist John M. Eason joins host Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black studio at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University to discuss his book Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation (University of Chicago Press). Eason is Assistant […]
On this episode of Left of Black, Regina N. Bradley joins host Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black studio at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. Bradley discusses her work on the groundbreaking Hip-Hop act Outkast and what might be described as “New” Southern Studies. A Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow alumna […]
On this episode of Left of Black, classically trained vocalist Candice Hoyes joins host Mark Anthony Neal and a live audience at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke For a discussion of the continued relevance of the music of Duke Ellington and Black Musical traditions. A graduate of Harvard and a veteran of Jazz […]
On this special episode Left of Black, guest host Alexis Pauline Gumbs is in conversation with foundational Black Feminist Theorist Hortense Spillers. Spillers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University and the author of Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (University of Chicago Press, Spring 2003) and the […]
On this episode of Left of Black, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan joins host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black studio to discuss Black Feminist Poetics Harlem and the role of Creatives in the Trump Era.Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst and Postdoctoral Fellow in […]
On this episode of Left of Black, Dr. Allison Mathews joins host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black studio. Dr. Mathews is the founder and CEO of Community Expert Solutions, LLC, which uses crowdsourcing to identify and develop community-based ideas into revenue generating projects. She is the director of […]
On this episode of Left of Black, Professor André M. Carrington, author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (University of Minnesota Press), joins host Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black studio. Carrington was at Duke University to deliver a keynote address at the Black Is, Black Will Be: On […]
The self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist, Alexis Pauline Gumbs joins Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black Studio to discuss her new book Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke University Press). In part a homage to Black feminist theorist Hortense Spillers, “Gumbs offers an alternative approach to Black feminist […]
On this episode of Left of Black Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter, musician and producer Bilal joins host Mark Anthony Neal In a wide ranging conversation about his career, his many collaborations and the legacy of Black music.