Podcasts

Podcasts

Episode 22 | Filmmaker John Akomfrah and the ‘Precarity’ of Black Genius 

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by filmmaker John Akomfrah, A founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London…

Episode 21 | White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by scholar and author Alisha Gaines, Author of Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy (UNC Press, 2017),…

Episode 20 | Fugitive Science, Black Freedom and Early African AmericanCulture

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by scholar and author Britt Rusert Author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture…

Episode 19 | “No News Is Good News” – A Conversation with Phonte Coleman

A founding member of Little Brother, the lead vocalist of Foreign Exchange and an artists in his own right Phonte Coleman joins Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal in the…

Episode 18 | Diasporic Blackness – The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by scholar and author Vanessa K. Valdes. Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the…

Episode 17 | Alsarah and the Sounds of Nubia

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Musician and Ethnomusicologist Alsarah, lead singer and co-founder of Alsarah and the Nubatones, an…

Episode 16 | The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Margo Natalie Crawford  Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Crawford is…

Episode 15 | Break Beats in the Bronx –Rediscovering Hip-Hop’s Early Years

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr The Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana…

Episode 14 |  Melissa Harris Perry and Brittney Cooper

In Winston-Salem, NC at Wake Forest University Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Melissa Harris-Perry, the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University and scholar…

Episode 13 | Remaking Black Power – How Black Women Transform an Era

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Ashley D. Farmer Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University….

Episode 12 | When Black Professional Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Riché J. Daniel Barnes Dean of Pierson College at Yale University and Professor of…

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.@phontigallo came through #LeftOfBlack (at Duke University – John Hope Franklin Center)