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Redefining Black Power and Re-Thinking Black Male Achievement on the February 20th Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by journalist Joanne Griffith, editor of the new book Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America (City Lights).  Griffith discusses the observations of several of […]

Left of Black S2:E19 | February 13, 2012 A History of Haiti and the Legacy of Violence in Jamaica with Laurent Dubois and Deborah Thomas  Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Laurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University   A co-director of the […]

A History of Haiti and the Legacy of Violence in Jamaica on the February 13thLeft of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Laurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University   A co-director of the Haiti Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute,  Dubois […]

Left of Black S2:E18 | February 6, 2012 Thinking While Black with Melissa Harris Perry and Marc Lamont Hill  Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Tulane University political science professor Melissa Harris Perry, author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale […]

Thinking While Black: Melissa Harris Perry and Marc Lamont Hill on the February 6th Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Tulane University political science professor Melissa Harris Perry, author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale University Press). Perry discusses the […]

Left of Black S2:E17 | January 30, 2012 Memories of the Chitlin Circuit and Education in the Digital Age w/ Professor Guthrie Ramsey and Professor Cathy Davidson Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by University of Pennsylvania professor, author, and musician Guthrie Ramsey. Neal and Ramsey […]

Remembering “The Colored Waiting Room” and the “Myth” of a Culture of Distraction   on the January 30th ‘Left of Black’ Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by University of Pennsylvania professor, author, and musician Guthrie Ramsey. Neal and Ramsey discuss the release of The Colored Waiting […]

Left of Black S2:E16 ‘Blackness’, Professional Sports and the #Occupy the Academy Movement w/ Bomani Jones, Professor David J. Leonard and Professor James Braxton Peterson January 23, 2012 Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by David J. Leonard and in-studio by Bomani Jones.  Leonard is an associate professor in […]

‘Blackness’, Professional Sports and the #Occupy the Academy Movement on the January 23rd ‘Left of Black’ Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by David J. Leonard and in-studio by Bomani Jones.  Leonard is an associate professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State […]

Left of Black: Wednesday @ the Center Hip-Hop Activism and the Arab Spring w/ Omar Offendum and Pierce Freelon  January 16,  2012  Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in person by activist, hip-hop artist, and architect Omar Offendum, and jazz, hip-hop artist, and educator Pierce Freelon.  Recorded in October as part […]