Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor Robert Reid-Pharr Author of many books including Conjugal Union: The Body, The House, and the Black American (Oxford University Press, 1999), Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (New York University Press, 2007), and most recently, Archives […]
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by artist, activist, and Afrofuturist, Ingrid LaFleur. Her mission is to ensure equal distribution of the future, exploring the frontiers of social justice through new technologies, economies, and modes of government. As a recent Detroit Mayoral candidate and founder and director of AFROTOPIA, LaFleur implements […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and historian, Christopher Tinson, author of Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), which Jennifer Guglielmo describes as, “An illuminating, nuanced, and beautifully written history that explores community-based print culture as a […]
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Nijah Cunningham. Cunningham is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. He is also an assistant professor of English at Hunter College. He specializes in African American and African diasporic literature and his fields […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Michael Ralph, Author of Forensics of Capital (University of Chicago Press, 2015), which Mamadou Diouf describes as a book that, “draws from various sources and resources to identify critical moments, events, and key social actors; investigates issues of risk, liability, citizenship, […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by acclaimed rapper and producer, Amir Mohamed el Khalifa Also known as Oddisee . Oddisee visited Durham and Duke University for a weeklong residency in October 2018 as part of Duke Performances’ Hip-Hop Initiative. His albums include The Iceberg (2017), The Good Fight […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer Author of Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States (New York University Press, 2016), which Marc Lamont Hill describes as, “a desperately needed intervention within Anthropology, Africana Studies, and Islamic Studies” that “brilliantly […]
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Yomaira Figueroa. Figueroa is an Assistant Professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the department of English and African American & African Studies program at Michigan State University. She received her PhD in the department of Ethnic Studies at the University of […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and poet, Fred Moten Author of numerous books including In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), The Little Edges (Wesleyan University Press, 2015), B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010), and The Feel Trio […]
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Randi Gill-Sadler. Gill-Sadler is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. Her research focuses on representations of U.S. imperialism and black women in twentieth century United States and Caribbean […]