Uncategorized

Riley B. King, courtesy John Jennings.

With Spoken Word poet and member of the 2015 class of Nasir Jones HipHop Fellows Dasan Ahanu–talking shop in the Left of Black studios.

One of those Black Moments!

Yep. March 31st. 10am est.

Left of Black S5:E23: Race and Suburban Schooling  Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in-studio by Sociologist R.L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy (@DumiLM), author of Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling (Stanford University Press, 2014). Neal and Lewis-McCoy have a wide ranging discussion about race and […]

Left of Black S5:E22: Queer Black Visionaries In this special episode of Left of Black, taped with a live audience at Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity at Duke University, Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined by filmmaker and photographer Katina Parker (@KatinaParker). Neal and Parker discuss her forthcoming documentary series Truth.Be.Told. which examines the […]

I wonder if I talk to my #Starbucks barista abt reparations if I can get a free latte. #racetogether -pierre bennu pierre bennu  (via pierrebennu)

With 9th Wonder and Robert Glasper at NCCU

Left of Black S5:E21:  Black Erotic Lives in Slavery and Freedom Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in studio by Professor Jessica Marie Johnson (@jmjafrx) and Professor Treva Blaine Lindsey (@DivaFeminist), co-authors of the essay “Searching for Climax: Black Erotic Lives in Slavery and Freedom.” In the […]

Left of Black S5:E20:  Classic Soul and the Dismantling of Black Radio  Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined via Skype by Dyana Williams (@DyanaWilliams), veteran Philadelphia Radio personality. Neal and Williams discuss her work with the legendary Frankie Crocker, the legacy of Philadelphia International Records (PIR) and […]