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9th Wonder with that #Playlist #Pedagogy #DukeHipHop (at Duke University East Campus)

#BlackCodeStudies: The EP  (The A-Side) – Curated by Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackCodeStudies: The EP  (The B-Side) – Curated by Mark Anthony Neal Visual Conceptualization by Jessica Marie Johnson

In the #LeftOfBlack studio with The Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (at Duke University – John Hope Franklin Center)

In the #LeftOfBlack studio with Daniel Jose Older (at Duke University – John Hope Franklin Center)

Multitudes and a Black Sense of Place and Movement: A Review of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs by Sasha Panaram | @SashaPanaram | NewBlackMan (in Exile) Written by a self-avowed queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist, Spill reads like a love letter or an ode to Black women […]

Christmas with a Twist of Soul: Mark Anthony Neal on His Favorite Christmas Songs  Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal discusses his favorite African-American Christmas songs with NPR’s Michel Martin. Though similar to conventional Christmas songs in spirit, his picks come with a twist of soul music.

“I Can’t Turn You Loose”: Otis Redding and the Kinship of Live Soul by Mark Anthony Neal | @NewBlackMan | NewBlackMan (in Exile) ‘The notion of friendship or kinship was critical to understanding the role that Redding played on stage; Soul music was not just about sharing the Black musical experience with so-called White America, […]

As the year comes to a close, #BackChannel contributors Natalie Bullock Brown, professor of film and broadcast media at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, and Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African & African American Studies and English at Duke University, reflect on standout cultural productions and some of their favorites from 2016 with WUNC host […]