Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Ashley D. Farmer Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University. Professor Farmer is author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transform an Era (UNC Press).
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Riché J. Daniel Barnes Dean of Pierson College at Yale University and Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Barnes is the author of Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community (Rutgers University Press), Winner of the 2017 […]
Left of Black S8:E11: The Eloquent Rage of Brittney Cooper On location in Winston-Salem, NC at Wake Forest University Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by scholar and author Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk), author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. Of Cooper, noted scholar Michael Eric Dyson writes “Cooper may […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Hip-Hop artist Murs In a wide-ranging conversation about fatherhood, mental health, his longtime collaborative relationship with 9th Wonder and his latest recording A Strange Journey into The Unimaginable.
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with historian Chad L. Williams Author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (UNC Press 2010). Professor Williams is Chair of the African American Studies Department at Brandeis University and co-editor (with Kidada Williams and Keisha Blain) of Charleston Syllabus: […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with fantasy novelist Daniel José Older Talk his interests in Fantasy Fiction, how bureaucracies influenced his writing, and the challenge of diversity in the publishing industry. Older is the author of Battle Hill Bolero (an epic war novel set in Brooklyn), from the Urban Fantasy series […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with political scientist Tasha Philpot, Author of Conservative but Not Republican: The Paradox of Party Identification and Ideology among African Americans (Cambridge University Press). Tasha Philpot is an Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Philpot is also the author […]
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with historian Talitha L. LeFlouria, Author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (UNC Press). Dr. LeFlouria is associate professor of African American Studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. Chained in Silence won the […]