Left of Black S:2 E:1 w/ Michael Eric Dyson September 12, 2011 Host Mark Anthony Neal, is joined by Georgetown professor and public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson via Skype® for the season premiere of Left of Black. The two scholars assess President Obama’s agenda, accomplishments, and challenges, as well as Cornel West’s perspective of the […]
demonicground: For Clyde Woods demonicground: I wrote this for Clyde Woods earlier this week. Thank you Laura Puildo for reading it to him on July 5. Many worlds were opened up by CW which tells me that our sadness and loss, and our futures, will always be bound up in the bluesy energy and the […]
Left of Black #35w/ Cornel WestMay 23, 2011 On the season finale of Left of Black, Princeton Professor Cornel West joins host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal in a conversation about the “Image of Black Males in the Age of Obama.“ The discussion was recorded at the Baptist Grove Church in Raleigh, NC […]
Left of Black #34 w/ David J. Leonard and Natalie Y. Moore May 16, 2011 *** Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Washington State University Professor David J. Leonard, co-editor of Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African-Americans in Contemporary Sports. Later he is joined […]
Left of Black #33 w/ Lisa B. Thompson May 9, 2011 Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by scholar and playwright Lisa B. Thompson. Neal and Thompson discuss the images of Black middle class women, the Tony Award nominated musical The Scottsboro Boys and the role […]
http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf Left of Black #32 w/ Aishah Shahidah Simmons & Zaheer Ali May 2, 2011 Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons in a discussion of sexual violence in Black communities, homophobia, and popular culture controversies surrounding Ashley Judd, Kobe Bryant and […]
Left of Black #31w/ Karla FC HollowayApril 25, 2011 Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by fellow Duke University Professor Karla FC Holloway, author the new book Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics (Duke University Press). Neal and Holloway discuss medical racism, the Tuskegee […]
From ‘Go Down Moses’ to the death of Manning Marable, what is the relationship between Black folk and social media? Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal, TED-style (12 minutes). About TEDx TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the […]
Left of Black #30 w/ Mark Naison April 18, 2011 Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Fordham University Historian and activist Mark Naison in a wide ranging discussion about growing up as a White American embracing Black culture, the emergence of Black Studies on predominately White college […]