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from the dude who gave us ‪#‎BlackBarbieMoses‬; Pierre Bennu making‪#‎BlackLivesMatters‬ even in our childhood nostalgia.  

#ChairmanFred #December4th #OnesidedShootout

Left of Black S5:E10:  Telling the Stories of Black Life in Film Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Emmy Award Winning filmmaker and MacArthur Genius Award recipient Stanley Nelson (@StanleyNelson1). Discussing the importance of documentary film Nelson says, “The stories that […]

Still from ‘The Hip-Hop Fellow Outtakes’

In the Left of Black studio with Rutgers University Professor Nicole Fleetwood, author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality & Blackness.

9th Wonder visits #MJDuke. Credit KJ Hunt.

Left of Black S5:E9:  The Long 1970s  & The Institute of the Black World Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Historian Derrick E. White (@BlackStar1906), author of The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s (University of […]

avaduvernayfan: Photography in the @Selmafilm photos already released is amazing. As well as the casting, by Aisha Coley,Make up by Vonda K Morris, and wardrobe by Ruth Carter. CAN NOT WAIT to see this film. Ava DuVernay directed it. Bradford Young ,Cinematographer. Limited release in Christmas day, NYC and LA.National release from January 9,2015. #SelmaFilm   #AvaDuVernay 

Left of Black S5:E8:  On Sex, Race, Money & Other Impolite Conversations Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by award-winning journalist Cora Daniels (@IamCoraDaniels) and University of Pennsylvania Cultural Anthropologist John L. Jackson, Jr. (@JohnLJacksonJr)  authors of Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion […]

Left of Black S5:E7:  Crowdfunding Black Creative Vision Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Felicia Pride, writer and producer of the short film The End Again, which stars Columbus Short and Tanee McCall-Short. The film is a prequel to the feature length film OpenEnded, also […]