Podcasts Podcasts Season 11 Episode 2: Derrick E. White and the Legacy of Black College Football During the time of Jim Crow segregation, HBCU’s have nurtured some of the brightest talent to be seen on the football field. From producing intensely competitive student athletes to employing… Read More Season 11 Episode 1: Keith Knight on Hulu’s New Series: WOKE Does being a Black artist necessitate being ‘woke’ and thus influencing the work that they produce? Cartoonist Keith Knight has attained newfound success with the new Hulu original series, “Woke,”… Read More Season 10 Episode 19 | Candice M. Jenkins on the Black Middle Class Candice M. Jenkins, Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the author of the recently released and critically-acclaimed Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the… Read More Season 10 Episode 18 | Caryl Phillips on Writing Oneself Into Visibility Celebrated novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips conversed about the intersection of creative writing and humanistic inquiry He discussed his work as professor of English at Yale University with former Duke… Read More Season 10 Episode 17 | Jazz Saxophonist Joshua Redman The Pinhook, for a stirring discussion about the state of jazz, his own musical journey, and the legacy of his father great jazz saxophonist Walter Dewey Redman. Jazz legend Joshua… Read More Season 10 Episode 16 | Chaédria LaBouvier on Basquiat’s “Defacement” Writer and curator Chaédria LaBouvier has cemented her place in the art world as the first African-American person to curate an exhibition at the famed Guggenheim Museum. A scholar of… Read More Season 10 Episode 15 | Richard Brent Turner on Black New Orleans New Orleans persists as the premiere hub of Black Creole culture in the U.S., preserving a direct connection to traditions ranging from the first & second lines in jazz funerals… Read More Season 10 Episode 14 | Kinohi Nishikawa and Black Pulp Fiction of the 1970’s The rise of Black pulp fiction was largely attributed to the success of Blaxpoitation films, like Dolemite, which offered a more raw depiction of African American daily life in the… Read More Season 10 Episode 13 | Candis Watts Smith on Black Lives Matter What is the ongoing relevance of the Black Lives Matter movement particularly as the nation heads back to the polls for the upcoming 2020 election? In this episode of Left… Read More Season 10 Episode 12 | Ainehi Edoro an Brittle Paper Left of Black co-host host Sasha Panaram is joined in the studio by Dr. Ainehi Edoro, an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the founder and… Read More Season 10 Episode 11 | Courtney R. Baker on Images of African American Suffering and Death Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Courtney R. Baker, an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California,… Read More Season 10 Episode 10 | Monika Gosin on The Politics of Racial in Multicultural Miami Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by Dr. Monika Gosin, an associate professor of sociliogy at William & Mary. She is the author of… Read More « Previous 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 … 51 Next »
