Left of Black S5:E6: A Conversation with Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York, President of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury and Chairman and founder of the Abyssinian Development Corporation.

Visiting Duke University recently to deliver the annual Gardner C. Taylor Lecture, who Butts describes as “the best preacher I ever heard in the English language,” Neal and Butts cover a range of topics including the State of the Black Church, the death of Eric Garner, the political legacy of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and the “Harlem Gang of Four,” and what’s on his current playlist.

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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 and in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE).

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