Season 7

Episode 3 | Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism

On this episode of Left of Black, host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by GerShun Avilez in a discussion of his new book Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism (University of Illinois Press), which examines how Black Nationalist rhetoric impacted African American artistic experimentation in the late 20th and 21st centuries in drama, novels, […]

Episode 2 Talking The #ProfessionalBlackGirl Movement with Scholar/Producer Yaba Blay

On this episode of Left of Black, host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Dr. Yaba Blay In a discussion of her new web series #ProfessionalBlackGirl, her forthcoming series Adventures at Beauty World, and her role as a public intellectual. Blay is currently the Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science at North Carolina […]

Episode 1 | A Conversation with Marc Lamont Hill

In the premiere episode of Season 7 of Left of Black, host Mark Anthony Neal in joined in-studio by Marc Lamont Hill  In a discussion of his new book Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond (Atria Books) and contemporary political discourse. Hill is the host of VH1 […]