Podcasts

Podcasts

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…

Episode 10 | Oddisee (Amir Mohamed el Khalifa) Talks The State of  Hip-Hop and Trump’s America

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by acclaimed rapper and producer, Amir Mohamed el Khalifa  Also known as Oddisee . Oddisee visited Durham and…

Episode 9 | Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer   Author of Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United…

Episode 8 | Decolonizing Diasporas – a Conversation with Yomaira Figueroa

Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by literary scholar, Yomaira Figueroa. Figueroa is an Assistant Professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the department of English…