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Uncovering Race and Racism in America’s Newsrooms on the November 14th Left of Black Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by veteran journalist Amy Alexander, the author of Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist’s Story of Reporting and Reinvention (Beacon Press). Alexander, who has worked at the […]

Left of Black S2:E9 w/ Vijay Prashad and Leyla Farah November 7, 2011 Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of the recent award winning book The Darker […]

November 7th ‘Left of Black’ Examines the #Occupy Movement Host  and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of the recent award winning book The Darker Nations: A People’s History […]

Left of Black S2:E8 w/ E. Patrick Johnson and Honoreé Fanonne Jeffers October 31, 2011 Host  and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South; an Oral History.  A Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Johnson’s ethnographic work […]

October 31st ‘Left of Black’ Explores The Experiences of Black Gay Men in the South and the Legacy of 18th Century Poet Phillis Wheatley Host  and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South; an Oral History.  A Professor […]

Left of Black Discusses Arab Spring and Hip-Hop Activism with Syrian American Artist Omar Offendum On Wednesday October 26, 2011, Left of Black will feature Syrian American Hip-Hop artist Omar Offendum and artist and educator Pierce Freelon of The Beast on a special live audience taping of the show, as part of the Wednesday at […]

Left of Black S2:E7 w/ Jonathan Gayles and Alondra Nelson October 24, 2011 Jonathan Gayles, professor of African American Studies at Georgia State University and writer, director, and producer of the film White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in American Comic Books joins host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal on Left of […]

Left of Black Marks the 45th Anniversary of the Founding of The Black Panther Party with Author and Professor Alondra Nelson Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination joins host Mark Anthony Neal on the October 24th […]

Left of Black S2:E6 w/ Dr. Kenneth Montague and Kellie Jones October 17, 2011 Dr. Kenneth Montague, a Toronto-based dentist and the curator of Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, joins Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal at the Nasher Museum in Durham, Carolina. The Windsor, Ontario born Montague has collected contemporary art since […]

Left of Black Presents:  A Conversation with Steve Stoute WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 6:30 PM JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Please join us on the set of Left of Black in room 240 of the John Hope Franklin Center for a live, streamed, conversation with Steve Stoute, author of the newly The […]