Left of Black S4:E8:  Soul Power TV—Soul Train and the Birth of ‘Black’ Talk TV

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by Ericka Blount Danois, an award-winning journalist and author of Love, Peace, and Soul: Behind the Scenes of America’s Favorite Dance Show Soul Train: Classic Moments.

Neal is later joined via Skype by Chicago-based media scholar Devorah Heitner, author of Black Power TV (Duke University Press), which examines first generation public affairs programs such as Inside Bed-Stuy, Say Brother, Soul!and Black Journal.

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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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