Podcasts

Podcasts

Left of Black S3:E19 | The Black Revolution on Campus & the Roots Black Studies In January of 1969,  WCBS-TV in New York City began to broadcast a series of…

Left of Black S3:E18 | Roe v. Wade & Reproductive Justice  Forty years ago the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade legally protected a woman’s right to have an abortion,…

Left of Black S3:E17 | Slavery in the Post Civil Rights Imagination; Black Radicalism in the Muslim Third World Imagination In her new book Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial…

Left of Black S3:E16 | Dr. Luke Powery Discusses His New Book—‘Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death and Hope’ In a year marked by no less than sixteen mass shootings in…

Left of Black S3:E15 | Filmmaker Byron Hurt Discusses His New Film Soul Food Junkies and Django Unchained Byron Hurt’s late father was like the many Americans whose unhealthy diets…

Filmmaker Byron Hurt Talks About His New Film Soul Food Junkies on the Spring Premiere of ‘Left of Black’ Byron Hurt’s late father was like the many Americans whose unhealthy…

Left of Black S3:E13 | Cable News, ‘Scary’ Black People & Black Nerds Journalist Eric Deggans, Television & Media Critic for The Tampa Bay Times, is one of a handful…

Left of Black S3:E12 | The Politics of Pleasure and the Power of Alternative Politics December 3, 2012 For more than twenty-years Joan Morgan, journalist, feminist thinker, and author of…

Left of Black S3:E11 | Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia November 26, 2012 On Thursday, November 8, 2012, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) sponsored Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia: …

Left of Black S3:E10 | Who is Black in Multiracial America? November 19, 2012 American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within…

Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism November 12, 2012 For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a…

The Legacy of Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism on the November 12thLeft of Black For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains…