Left of Black S4:E5 | Left of Black @ Harvard: Marcyliena Morgan, Executive Director of the HipHop Archive and Research Institute On location at the HipHop Archive and Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research in Cambridge, MA, Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal sits down withMarcyliena Morgan, Professor of African […]
Left of Black S4:E4 | Writing is Fighting: Elaine Richardson and ‘Brothers Writing to Live’ Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by The Ohio State University Professor Elaine Richardson (@DoctaE1), author of the memoir PHD (Po H# on Dope) to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life, which traces her life as […]
Left of Black S4:E3 | Race, Space & Music in Black and Brown LA w/ Gaye Theresa Johnson Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by UC-Santa Barbara Professor Gaye Theresa Johnson, author of Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles. In the book, Johnson examines […]
Left of Black S4:E2 | ‘For Colored Boys” with Director Stacey Muhammad Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by writer, producer and director Stacey Muhammad, who discusses her new web-based dramatic series For Colored Boys, REDEMPTION, which examines contemporary Black Masculinity through the lives of Benjamin Boyd, Sr. (Rob Morgan), who is returning “home” after years […]
Left of Black S4:E1 | “Showing Work” with Writer Kiese Laymon Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by writer and Vasser College Professor Kiese Laymon. Kiese Laymon is a black southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He […]
Left of Black S3:E28 | On the Season Finale of ‘Left of Black’ Guest Host Alondra Nelson Talks with Mark Anthony Neal about His New Book ‘Looking for Leroy’ Guest host and Columbia University Professor Alondra Nelson sits down in the Left of Black studios with Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal to discuss his […]
Left of Black S3:E27 | Queer Sounds & Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by DePaul University Professor Francesca Royster, the author of the new book Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (University of Michigan Press). With Black eccentricity […]
Left of Black S3:E26 | Black Digital Sci-Fi & Black Girls in the ‘New’ South Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by Keith Josef Adkins, writer and director of the digital Sci-Fi series ‘The Abandon.’ Later Neal is joined by University of Georgia professor Bettina Love, author of […]
Left of Black S3:E25 | The Enduring Legacy of Angela Davis Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by film director Shola Lynch in a conversation about her new film Free Angela and All Politics Prisoners and the enduring legacy of Angela Davis as an intellectual and […]