Left of Black S4:E4 | Writing is Fighting: Elaine Richardson and ‘Brothers Writing to Live’

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by The Ohio State University Professor Elaine Richardson (@DoctaE1), author of the memoir   PHD (Po H# on Dope) to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life, which traces her life as young sex-worker to one of the leading socio-linguist in the United States.

Later Neal is joined by scholar activist Darnell Moore (@Moore_Darnell), writer and filmmaker Kai M. Green(@Kai_MG) and LGBTQ Advocate and former NFL player Wade Davis II (@Wade_Davis28), members of the collectiveBrothers Writing to Live.

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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