Left of Black S4:E28: Iconic Women Singers & African American Literature Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Emily J. Lordi, author of Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature (Rutgers University Press). Lordi is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. *** Left […]
Left of Black S4:E27: What is the ‘Art of Cool’ Festival? Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Cicely Mitchell, co-founder of the Art of Cool Festival, which runs in downtown Durham, North Carolina, April 25-26, 2014. Acts scheduled to appear include Maceo Parker, The Foreign Exchange, Bilal, Alice Smith, […]
Left of Black S4:E26: Sex Trafficking in Brazil Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in studio by Erica Lorraine Williams, assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Spelman College. Professor Williams is the author of Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements (University of Illinois Press) *** Left of Black is a weekly […]
Left of Black S4:E25: The Cultural Impact of Kanye West Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Julius Bailey, associate professor of philosophy at Wittenberg University, and Regina Bradley, an instructor of English and interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University. Bailey is the editor of The Cultural Impact of Kanye West […]
Left of Black S4:E24: Beyonce, Philly Soul and the Legacy of Amiri Baraka In the Left of Black studios at the John Hope Franklin Center, Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by noted scholar and musician Guthrie Ramsey, Jr. in a discussion about the music of Beyonce, Philly Soul and the […]
Left of Black S4:E23: Staging Black Gay Men of the South In the Left of Black studios at the John Hope Franklin Center, Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by noted scholar and performance artist E. Patrick Johnson, in a discussion of his one-man stage show Sweet Tea: Black Gay […]
Black Cinema from Spike Lee to Tyler Perry to Ava Duvernay Professor Mark Anthony Neal Duke University African & African American Studies—AAAS 390s-01 Program in Art of the Moving Image—AMI 390s-01 Visual and Media Studies—VMS 290s-01 Summer Session One M.T.Th—12:30 pm – 2:35 pm Perkins LINK 2 – 060 The release of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta […]
Left of Black S4:E22: Archibald Motley—Jazz Age Modernist On location at The Nasher Museum of Art, Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by noted Art Historian Richard J. Powell, curator of the new exhibit Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, the first retrospective of Motley’s work in two decades. Powell is […]
Left of Black S4:E21: Does ‘Negro’ Cinema Matter in the Age of Global Blackness? Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Professor Stephane Dunn, Director ofthe Cinema, Television, & Emerging Media Studies Program at Morehouse College and Esther Iverem, Founder and Managing Editor of SeeingBlack.com. Dunn and Iverem discuss the current […]