Left of Black S5:E6: A Conversation with Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York, President of the State University of New York College […]
At the closing ceremonies of the 2nd Annual Black Doctoral Network Conference in Philadelphia, PA, Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal was given DNA tests by Dr. Rick Kittles, co-founder of of African Ancestry, the world leader in tracing maternal and paternal lineages of African descent. Results of Professor Neal’s DNA testing with be revealed in an episode of Left of […]
Left of Black S5:E5: New Black Southern Studies Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by University of Memphis Sociologist Zandria F. Robinson, author of This Ain’t Chicago Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South (UNC Press). Addressing the current state of Southern Studies, Professor […]
That we are burying children seems not to be the point; in the moment of Renisha, Jonathan, Eric–we’re all innocents—ain’t no saint and sinners in this, only dead Black bodies. That these are presumably sister and brother—collateral damage in wars never designed to save their lives, even had they lived—provides clarity after a summer of “my […]
Left of Black S5:E4: Mass Incarceration, Voting Rights & State Sanctioned Violence Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Daryl Atkinson, Senior Staff Attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice in North Carolina. In a conversation about mass incarceration, the erosion of voting rights and State […]
Remembering Geoffrey Holder, Renaissance Man by Thomas F. DeFrantz | special to NewBlackMan (in Exile) The term “renaissance man” truly applies to few; Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014), who passed away earlier this week after a long illness, numbers among those. Holder had extensive success as an actor in films and stage, as a recording celebrity, costume designer, […]
Left of Black S5:E3: The Danger of Being Publicly Black with Karla FC Holloway Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Professor Karla FC Holloway, the James B Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where she holds appointments in the Law School, Women’s Studies and African […]