Podcasts

Podcasts

Episode 22 | The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland  

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and poet DaMaris B. Hill Author of A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of…

Episode 21 | The Best of Enemies

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio with film director Robin Bissell to talk about his latest project, The Best of Enemies. Robin Bissell made…

Episode 20 | Stew & The Negro Problem – Notes of a Native Song

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Stew Stewart of Stew & The Negro Problem to discuss his music, his work on James Baldwin, and…

Episode 19 | Sylvia Chan-Malik on A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor Sylvia Chan-Malik Author of Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam…

Episode 18 | E .Patrick Johnson on the Oral Histories of Black. Queer. Southern. Women

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and artist, E. Patrick Johnson Author of innumerable books including two award-winning books, Appropriating Blackness: Performance…

Episode 17 | Curating The Legacy of Dick Gregory

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Christian Gregory  A chiropractor in Washington, DC, Dr. Gregory is one of the eleven children of…

Episode 16 | Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century with Kehinde Andrews

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor Kehinde Andrews , author of Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (ZED,…

Episode 15 | Robert Reid-Pharr on Aging, Living Life as an Intellectual and the of Black Queer Studies

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor Robert Reid-Pharr Author of many books including Conjugal Union: The Body, The House, and the Black…

Episode 14 | Ingrid LaFleur Discusses AFROTOPIA

Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by artist, activist, and Afrofuturist, Ingrid LaFleur. Her mission is to ensure equal distribution of the future, exploring the frontiers…

Episode 13 | Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the1960s – a Conversation with Christopher Tinson

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and historian, Christopher Tinson, author of Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s…

Episode 12 | “Waiting for Happiness” – a Conversation with Nijah Cunningham

Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Nijah Cunningham. Cunningham is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows in the…

Episode 11 | Michael Ralph on the Forensics of Capital 

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Michael Ralph, Author of Forensics of Capital (University of Chicago Press, 2015), which Mamadou Diouf describes…