Left of Black S5:E19: Through A Lens Darkly—Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined via Skype by filmmaker and photographer Thomas Allen Harris (@ObaOxum). Inspired by Deborah Willis’ groundbreaking book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to […]
Left of Black S5:E18: Black History and America’s Future Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined via Skype by Howard University Professor Daryl Michael Scott. Professor Scott is President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), which was founded by Historian Carter […]
Left of Black S5:E17: Honoring Our Own Black Superheroes Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined via Skype by artist Joel Christian Gill (@jcg007), who talks about using Graphic Novels to teach Black History. Gill is the author of STRANGE FRUIT vol. 1: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History […]
Left of Black S5:E16: On Prison Art, Public Culture and Racial Icons Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in-studio by Professor Nicole Fleetwood , who talks about her forthcoming project Carceral Aesthetics: Prison Art and Public Culture. Fleetwood is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Institute for […]