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Episode 6 | “Black Studies has always been ahead of its moment” – A Conversation with Petal Samuel

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Petal Samuel , an assistant professor in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies at…

Episode 5 | Historian Jakobi Williams on The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago 

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Jakobi Williams, an associate professor at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of History and Department of…

Episode 4 | Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship with Professor Deondra Rose

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal joined in the studio by Dr. Deondra Rose an assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy with a secondary appointment in the Department…

Episode 3 | Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh Mumu Fresh’s “regal combination of black power and Native American pride” (NPR…

Episode 2 | Kaneesha Parsard on the Literature and Visual Culture of the English Speaking Caribbean in the Aftermath of Slavery and Indentureship

Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by Kaneesha Parsard. Parsard is a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University…

Episode 1 | Sister President Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Johnetta B. Cole, the former director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; President Emerita…

Episode 25: Vernacular Archives of Afro-Asia

Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by American Studies scholar, Tao Leigh Goff. Goffe is an Assistant Professor of Africana and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies…

Episode 24 | Jason Moran on James Reese Europe, The Great Migration and Living in Harlem

Left off Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by musician Jason Moran. Jason Moran is one of modern music’s most vital forces. Through a series of…

Episode 23 | Tony Award Nominee Camille A. Brown and Grammy Award Winner 9th Wonder in Conversation

In this special episode of Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal and Grammy Award Winning Producer 9th Wonder are joined by choreographer, dancer, and director Camille A. Brown Brown…

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…