Episode 4 | Religion + Hip-Hop at the Intersection of #BlackLivesMatter

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Religion Scholar

 Monica R. Miller, author of Religion and Hip Hop (Routledge, 2012), Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion: Social and Rhetorical Techniques Examined (Equinox), and co-editor of The Hip Hop and Religion Reader (Routledge) and co-editor Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the New Terrain in the US w/ Anthony Pinn and Bernard ‘Bun B’ Freeman (Bloomsbury). Professor Miller  is Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies at Lehigh University, where she also serves as Director of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. In this wide ranging and often frenetic conversation, Professor Miller discusses the shared passions of #BlackLivesMatter and Hip-Hop, the role each plays in forwarding a Black protest tradition, and the ways that both are redefining notions of Black Religious practice for youngactivist.