Left of Black S3:E24 | Gun Violence, Rape Culture and the Assault on Voting Rights Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, Akiba Solomon, Managing Editor of Colorlines Magazine, and journalist and activist Kevin Alexander Gray. Solomon is the coeditor with Ayana Byrd of Naked: Black Women Bare All About […]
Left of Black S2:E23 | Dave Zirin on the Intersections of Sports, Labor and Sexuality Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by sports commentator and social critic Dave Zirin, author of the new book Game Over: How Politics has Turned the Sports World Upside Down (The Free Press). Zirin, […]
Left of Black S2:E22 | Becoming Latina Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal talks with writer and filmmaker Raquel Cepeda about her new book, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina and growing up Hip-hop Cepeda’s credits include Bling: A Planet Rock, a feature length documentary about American hip-hop culture’s obsession with diamonds […]
Left of Black S2:E21 | Sex, Power & Desire in an Age of ‘Scandal’ In 1968 Bronx-born actress Dianne Carroll helped transition a new era in network television starring in the sitcom Julia. Premiering during the height of the Civil Rights Movement and only months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Julia broke […]
Left of Black S2:E20 | Critic Greg Tate Talks Black Science Fiction, Consuming Black Culture & the Late Butch Morris To understand the impact of Greg Tate, one need only consult the words of fellow critic Michael Gonzales, who on the occasion of Tate’s 50th birthday wrote: “For better or worse, if it were not […]
Left of Black S3:E19 | The Black Revolution on Campus & the Roots Black Studies In January of 1969, WCBS-TV in New York City began to broadcast a series of half-hour lectures under the banner of Black Heritage: A History of Afro-Americans. The series, which ran six days a week until June of 1969 (108 […]
Left of Black S3:E18 | Roe v. Wade & Reproductive Justice Forty years ago the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade legally protected a woman’s right to have an abortion, yet for women of color—poor women of color in particular—Roe v. Wade has offered little protection in their desires to fully pursue reproductive justice. […]
Left of Black S3:E17 | Slavery in the Post Civil Rights Imagination; Black Radicalism in the Muslim Third World Imagination In her new book Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post Civil Rights Imagination (Duke University Press), University of Pennsylvania Professor Salamishah Tillet examines the ways Black artists and writers have democratized […]
Left of Black S3:E16 | Dr. Luke Powery Discusses His New Book—‘Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death and Hope’ In a year marked by no less than sixteen mass shootings in the United States, including shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the murder of twenty children […]
Left of Black S3:E15 | Filmmaker Byron Hurt Discusses His New Film Soul Food Junkies and Django Unchained Byron Hurt’s late father was like the many Americans whose unhealthy diets led to a shortened lifespan. Alarmed by what he saw as a problem among African Americans, Byron Hurt, whose last film was the award-winning Hip-Hop: […]