Left of Black S4:E20: The Divided Mind of the Black Church Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Pastor Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and the author of The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness (NYU Press) […]
Guthrie P. Ramsey, University of Pennsylvania and Mark Anthony Neal, DukeUniversity celebrate their new books The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and The Challenge of Bebop and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities. They will be joined in a wide-ranging conversation about Black Masculinity, Genius and the Expressive Arts by eminent cultural critic […]
Left of Black S4:E19: Urban Bush Women Celebrate Thirty Years of Art & Struggle Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder and artistic director of Urban Bush Woman. On stage at Duke University’s Reynolds Industries Theater, Zollar discusses the history of the group, the importance of community […]
Left of Black S4:E18: The Story Behind ‘We Shall Overcome’ and Other Anthems of Black Resistance Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Professor Shana Redmond author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (New York University Press). Redmond, a professor American Studies and Ethnicity […]
Left of Black S4:E17: The Role of Black Barbers from Slavery until the Civil Rights Era Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Professor Quincy T. Mills, author of Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America (University of Pennsylvania Press). Mills, a Professor of History at Vassar College, reveals […]
Left of Black S4:E16: Parenting in “Post-Race” America and the Role of Black Public Intellectuals Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Professor David Ikard, author of Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Matters in 21st Century America (Indiana University Press) in a discussion about parenting in a “post-race” society and […]
Left of Black S4:E15: The Latining of America + Creating Alternative Images of Black Women Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Duke Professor Claudia Millian, author of Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (University of Georgia Press). Later, Neal sits down with actress Lakeisha Coffey and writer/director Chaunesti […]
Left of Black S4:E14: How Black Power Transformed Soul Music Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Rickey Vincent, author of Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music (Chicago Review Press). Vincent, a lecturer at the University of California […]
Left of Black S4:E13: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem & Shifting the Lens on Race Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by historians Davarian Baldwin (Trinity College) and Minkah Makalani (University of Texas) for a discussion of their new co-edited volume Escape from New York: The New Negro […]