Podcasts

Podcasts

Episode 11 | Dr. Daniel McNeil on A Contrarian Blackness

What happens when you take the incendiary reviews of an embattled film critic and juxtapose that against the intellectual work of a little-known, yet highly influential academic from the U.K….

Episode 10 | “The Sisterhood” of Black Feminist Writers with Dr. Courtney Thorsson

Picture celebrated authors Toni Morrison and Alice Walker getting together with famed playwright and actress Ntozake Shange at the poet and essayist June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to be fed Jamaican…

Episode 9 | Dr. Treva B. Lindsey on Violence, Black Women, And The Struggle For Justice

Why are Black women and girls the target of multiple forms of violence? Domestic violence in the home presents its own challenges, but what about the state-sanctioned violence that African…

Episode 8 | Black Duke Students on the End of the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship

Reginaldo “Reggie” Howard was the first African American President of the Associated Students of Duke University, which was essential to undergraduate student government He had a lot of big ideas…

Episode 7 | Dr. Thema Bryant on Black Church and Mental Health

Healing trauma in the African American community is often caught between either seeking professional mental health services or relying on faith leaders in the Black church Dr. Thema Bryant, the…

Episode 6 | Small Talk at FHI with Author Nabil Ayers

Author Nabil Ayers, born from the union between a white, Jewish, former ballerina and American funk, soul, and jazz musician Roy Ayers, joins the Webby Award-nominated podcast “Left of Black”…

Episode 5 | Gladys Mitchell-Walthour on the Growing Trope of the Afro-Brazilian “Welfare Queen”

Many political and economic comparisons are made between the U.S. and Brazil, citing them both as the largest democracies in the Western hemisphere.  Many political and economic comparisons are made…

Episode 4 | Black Maternal Health with Deirdre Cooper Owens

James Marion Sims, the “father” of gynecology, walked a horrific path towards medical innovation that involved inhumane and perverse experiments conducted on enslaved women in the 19th century His legacy,…

Episode 3 | Christopher Paul Harris on the Black Future and M4BL––The Movement for Black Lives

How can we build a world that centers on the humanity of Black people, using the tenets of Black resistance as a guide towards a new political imagining? Dr. Christopher…

Episode 2 | Kris Marsh on Embracing Being Single in the Black Middle Class

Many will remember growing up with the classic 1997 Black independent romantic comedy, “Love Jones,” which starred Larenz Tate and Nia Long among a cast of prolific Black Hollywood talent….

Episode 2 | Filmmaker Byron Hurt on HAZING

The senseless violence that happens on America’s college campuses all in the name of joining a fraternity or sorority has left an indelible, traumatic mark on the victims of hazing….

portrait of African American woman whose hair look like aquamarine and green brush strokes of paint

Episode 1 | Season 14 Premiere | Jasmine Nichole Cobb on the Art and Texture of Black Hair

What is the cultural significance of Black hair and how does it impact the way African Americans show up across all arenas of social life? And what are some art…