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</description><title>Left of Black</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @leftofblack)</generator><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Left of Black S3:E28 | On the Season Finale of ‘Left of Black’...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XPUFJVm3B-A?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E28 | On the Season Finale of ‘Left of Black’ Guest Host Alondra Nelson Talks with Mark Anthony Neal about His New Book ‘Looking for Leroy’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Guest host and Columbia University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Alondra Nelson&lt;/strong&gt; sits down in the &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; studios with Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt; to discuss his new book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookid=655#.UX6JGyvwK9t"&gt;Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (NYU Press).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Nelson is associate professor of sociology and gender studies at &lt;a href="http://sociology.columbia.edu/node/175"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Columbia University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the author of the award winning &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/body-and-soul"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and the forthcoming &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://chronicle.com/article/The-Social-Life-of-DNA/124138/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Social Life of DNA: Race and Reconciliation after the Genome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Beacon Press).  Neal is the author of several books including &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415979917/"&gt;New Black Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2005) and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415926584/"&gt;Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and the host of Left of Black.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;br/&gt;   &lt;br/&gt; Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in @ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/49202984353</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/49202984353</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:08:14 -0400</pubDate><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category><category>Alondra Nelson</category><category>left of black</category><category>Looking for Leroy</category><category>Black Masculinity</category><category>Body and Soul</category><category>Black Panther Party</category><category>John Hope Franklin Center</category><category>NYU Press</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E27 | Queer Sounds &amp; Eccentric Acts in the...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z11tMpXq55A?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Left of Black S3:E27 | &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Queer Sounds &amp; Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal &lt;/strong&gt;is joined, via Skype, by DePaul University Professor Francesca &lt;span&gt;Royster, the author of the new book &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/1586114/sounding_like_a_no_no"&gt;Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;(University of Michigan Press).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;With Black eccentricity as a frame, Neal and Royster discuss the careers and legacies of the late Eartha Kitt, Parliament-Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder’s Secret Life of Plants, Grace Jones and the late Michael Jackson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Royster is also the author of  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="lrg bold"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Cleopatra-Shifting-Image-Icon/dp/1403961093/ref=la_B001K8W13K_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1366753901&amp;sr=1-2"&gt;Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/48722698444</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/48722698444</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:07:07 -0400</pubDate><category>Francesca Royster</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category><category>Left of Black</category><category>Sound Like a No-No</category><category>Queer Sounds</category><category>Eccentric Acts</category><category>John Hope Franklin Center</category><category>Stevie Wonder</category><category>Eartha Kitt</category><category>Parliament-Funkadelic</category><category>Michael Jackson</category><category>Grace Jones</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E26 | Black Digital Sci-Fi &amp; Black Girls in...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JSHPzKtv-yk?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Left of Black S3:E26 | Black Digital Sci-Fi &amp; Black Girls in the ‘New’ South&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;host and Duke University Professor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;is joined, via Skype, by Keith Josef Adkins, writer and director of the digital Sci-Fi series ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theabandon.com/"&gt;The Abandon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;.’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Later Neal is joined by University of Georgia professor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bettina Love&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;, author of the new book ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&amp;seitentyp=produkt&amp;pk=58365&amp;cid=537"&gt;Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;’ (Peter Lang Publishing)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt;at Duke University.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;are also available for free download in @&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/48147286676</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/48147286676</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:47:34 -0400</pubDate><category>Bettina Love</category><category>New South</category><category>Black Girls</category><category>hip-hop</category><category>Keith Josef Adkins</category><category>The Abandon</category><category>Digital Sci-Fi</category><category>Left of Black</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category><category>John Hope Franklin Center</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E25 | The Enduring Legacy of Angela Davis
Left...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/edyIAsPPfzs?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E25 | The Enduring Legacy of Angela Davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal &lt;/strong&gt;is joined, via Skype, by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;film director &lt;strong&gt;Shola Lynch&lt;/strong&gt; in a conversation about her new film &lt;a href="http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-d-is-not-silent-free-angela-and.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Free Angela and All Politics Prisoners&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the enduring legacy of Angela Davis as an intellectual and cultural icon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Lynch’s credits include the award winning &lt;em&gt;Chisholm ‘72: Unbought &amp; Unbossed&lt;/em&gt; (2004).&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Free Angela and All Political Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;opened in selected cities on April 5, 2013, and was executive produced by Overbrook Entertainment and Roc Nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/47504932849</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/47504932849</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:44:31 -0400</pubDate><category>left of black</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category><category>John Hope Franklin Center</category><category>Shola Lynch</category><category>Angela Davis</category><category>Free Angela and All Political Prisoners</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E24 | Gun Violence, Rape Culture and the...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8tUpfGSwmcM?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E24 | Gun Violence, Rape Culture and the Assault on Voting Rights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal &lt;/strong&gt;is joined, via Skype, &lt;strong&gt;Akiba Solomon&lt;/strong&gt;, Managing Editor of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://colorlines.com/"&gt;Colorlines Magazine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and journalist and activist &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://kevinalexandergray.com/"&gt;Kevin Alexander Gray&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Solomon is the coeditor with Ayana Byrd of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Black-Women-About-Their/dp/0399531637"&gt;Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;Gray is the author of &lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Lightning-Strike-Fundamentals-Politics/dp/1904859917/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1365083124&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=kevin+alexander+gray"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. He is the managing editor of &lt;a href="http://thenewliberator.wordpress.com/"&gt;The New Liberator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in @ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/47107474494</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/47107474494</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:08:25 -0400</pubDate><category>left of black</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category><category>Akiba Solomon</category><category>Stop and Frisk</category><category>Rape Culture</category><category>Kevin Alexander Gray</category><category>Voting Rights Act</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S2:E23 | Dave Zirin on the Intersections of...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-JxurfxAhXM?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S2:E23 | Dave Zirin on the Intersections of Sports, Labor and Sexuality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal &lt;/strong&gt;is joined, via Skype, by sports commentator and social critic Dave Zirin, author of the new book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&amp;task=view_title&amp;metaproductid=1864"&gt;Game Over: How Politics has Turned the Sports World Upside Down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (The Free Press).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Zirin, who is a regular contributor to The Nation, is the author of several books including &lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bbpbooks.teachingforchange.org/book/9781595584779"&gt;&lt;span&gt;A People’s History of Sports in the United States&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&amp;key=151"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Not Just A Game: Power, Politics and American Sports&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bbpbooks.teachingforchange.org/book/9781931859417"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Zirin is also the co-author of the John Carlos Story (2011).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/46280638427</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/46280638427</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:36:00 -0400</pubDate><category>Dave Zirin Game Over How Politics has Turned the Sports World Upside Down John Hope Franklin Center Labor Left of Black Mark Anthony Neal Ra</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S2:E22 | Becoming Latina
 

 
Host and Duke...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z9K0Hw38Eag?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S2:E22 | Becoming Latina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal &lt;/strong&gt;talks with writer and filmmaker &lt;strong&gt;Raquel Cepeda&lt;/strong&gt; about her new book, &lt;a href="http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Bird-of-Paradise/Raquel-Cepeda/9781451635867"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and growing up Hip-hop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Cepeda’s credits include &lt;a href="http://djalirancher.com/film/bling/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Bling: A Planet Rock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a feature length documentary about American hip-hop culture’s obsession with diamonds and the critically acclaimed anthology &lt;a href="http://djalirancher.com/books/and-it-dont-stop-the-best-american-hip-hop-journalism-of-the-last-25-years/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;And It Don’t Stop: The Best Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins and Latino Book Award.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;br/&gt;   &lt;br/&gt; Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download @ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/45707661414</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/45707661414</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:59:47 -0400</pubDate><category>Bird of Paradise bling Dominican-American hip-hop journalism How I Became Latina John Hope Franklin Center Left of Black Mark Anthony Neal R</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S2:E21 | Sex, Power &amp; Desire in an Age of...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yxtPzmfPCXY?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S2:E21 | Sex, Power &amp; Desire in an Age of ‘Scandal’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In 1968 Bronx-born actress &lt;strong&gt;Dianne Carroll&lt;/strong&gt; helped transition a new era in network television starring in the sitcom &lt;em&gt;Julia&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Premiering during the height of the Civil Rights Movement and only months after the assassination of &lt;strong&gt;Martin Luther King, Jr&lt;/strong&gt;., &lt;em&gt;Julia &lt;/em&gt;broke new ground in its depiction of a Black female lead who was a professional and not simply a domestic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Forty-four years after the premiere of &lt;em&gt;Julia,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Kerry Washington&lt;/strong&gt;, another Bronx-born actress, debuted in the role of “Olivia Pope” on the hour-long drama &lt;em&gt;Scandal&lt;/em&gt;, created and executive produced by, Shonda Rhimes, an African American woman. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;The vastly different worlds that “Julia” and “Olivia Pope” inhabit are an index of the visibility of the interior lives of Black women in the public sphere. If Black women are perceived as a site of visual excess in mainstream culture, as Nicole Fleetwood argues in her recent book &lt;em&gt;Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness&lt;/em&gt;, than the fictional “Olivia Pope” (based on the real &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.judysmith.com/"&gt;Judy Smith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) is the embodiment of that excess on network television.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Professor &lt;strong&gt;Brittney Cooper&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;span class="st"&gt;Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University and Professor &lt;strong&gt;Treva Blaine Lindsey&lt;/strong&gt;, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri at Columbia join &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt; in a spirited conversation about sex, power and desire in &lt;em&gt;Scandal&lt;/em&gt; and the lives of Black women.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/44631421350</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/44631421350</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:47:37 -0500</pubDate><category>black women Brittney Cooper desire Kerry Washington Left of Black Mark Anthony Neal power scandal sex Shonda Rhimes Treva Blaine Lindsey</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S2:E20 | Critic Greg Tate Talks Black Science...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Vohpu8I9SyM?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;L&lt;span&gt;eft of Black S2:E20 |&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Critic Greg Tate Talks Black Science Fiction, Consuming Black Culture &amp; the Late Butch Morris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;To understand the impact of &lt;strong&gt;Greg Tate&lt;/strong&gt;, one need only consult the words of fellow critic &lt;strong&gt;Michael Gonzales&lt;/strong&gt;, who on the occasion of Tate’s 50&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; birthday wrote: “For better or worse, if it were not for Greg Tate, there would be no Bonz Malone, Harry Allen, Joan Morgan, Kris Ex, Scott Poulson Bryant, Toure, Danyel Smith, Michael Eric Dyson, Karen R. Goode, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Smokey Fontaine, Jon Caramanica, Jeff Chang, Amy Linden, Tom Terrell, Mark Anthony Neal, Tricia Rose, Sasha Jenkins, DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller), Dream Hampton, Miles Marshall Lewis, Aliya King, SekouWrites, Kenji Jasper, Oliver Wang, Cheo Hodari Coker, Keith Murphy or myself.”  Gonzales offers high praise for one of the singular critical voices of the last 30 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;The author of several books including the classic &lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Flyboy_in_the_Buttermilk.html?id=Z6CfAAAAMAAJ"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Flyboy in the Buttermilk: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Essays on Contemporary America&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; (1993)  and the edited volume &lt;a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0303/tate/excerpt.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Everything But the Burden&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;What White People Are Taking From Black Culture &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;(2003)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Greg Tate joins &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; host &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt; (via Skype) in a rousing discussion of Black Science Fiction, being a “gourmand” of Black Culture and the significance of the late musical conductor Butch Morris.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Tate is the longtime conductor of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://burntsugarindex.com/about-the-band/"&gt;Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber&lt;/a&gt;, a former &lt;em&gt;Village Voice&lt;/em&gt; Staff Writer and currently &lt;a href="http://brown.edu/Departments/Africana_Studies/people/GregTate.html"&gt;Visiting Professor&lt;/a&gt; of Africana Studies at Brown University.  Duke University Press will publish &lt;em&gt;Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader&lt;/em&gt; next year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;br/&gt;   &lt;br/&gt; Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/44023249028</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/44023249028</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:53:40 -0500</pubDate><category>Black Culture Black Science Fiction Brown University Butch Morris Duke University Greg Tate John Hope Franklin Center Left of Black Mark Ant</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E19 | The Black Revolution on Campus &amp; the...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aiBo53ZoVYQ?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E19 | The Black Revolution on Campus &amp; the Roots Black Studies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;In January of 1969,&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;WCBS-TV in New York City began to broadcast a series of half-hour lectures under the banner of &lt;em&gt;Black Heritage: A History of Afro-Americans&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The series, which ran six days a week until June of 1969 (108 episodes in all), was produced by historians &lt;strong&gt;John Henrik Clarke&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Vincent Harding&lt;/strong&gt; and political scientist &lt;strong&gt;William Strickland&lt;/strong&gt;—the later two who were founding members of the Institute of the Black World, a groundbreaking thinking tank that was based at the Atlanta University Center.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;According to historian Martha Biondi, by providing “ordinary Americans access to the Black history courses beginning to be offered on college campuses…these men personally bridged the gap between scholarship and activism.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; is proud to be of the many progeny of this visionary project, born during an era in which Black student activism on American college campuses helped transform institutions that less than a generation earlier, Black students were largely denied access to.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;This moment is chronicled in Martha Biondi’s new book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520269224"&gt;The Black Revolution on Campus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (University of California Press).&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;A historian at Northwestern University, Biondi joins Left of Black via Skype to talk about what she describes as “an extraordinary chapter in the modern Black freedom struggle.”&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Biondi is also the author of &lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019829"&gt;&lt;em&gt;To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Harvard University Press, 2003).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/43492522273</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/43492522273</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:54:30 -0500</pubDate><category>Black Liberation Movement Black Studies John Henrik Clarke John Hope Franklin Center Left of Black Mark Anthony Neal Martha Biondi The Black</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E18 | Roe v. Wade &amp; Reproductive...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jhu5ViY4Az0?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E18 | Roe v. Wade &amp; Reproductive Justice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Forty years ago the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade legally protected a woman’s right to have an abortion, yet for women of color—poor women of color in particular—Roe v. Wade has offered little protection in their desires to fully pursue reproductive justice.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;For nearly thirty years, the &lt;a href="http://chicagoabortionfund.com/"&gt;Chicago Abortion Fund&lt;/a&gt; (CAF) has sought to “overturn economic barriers to reproductive choice,” by engaging and mobilizing “low-income and poor women to become advocates for expanded reproductive access.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Gaylon Alcaraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;, Executive Director of the Chicago Abortion Fund and &lt;strong&gt;Cynthia Greenlee&lt;/strong&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://carolinaabortionfund.org/"&gt;Carolina Abortion Fund&lt;/a&gt;, join &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt; in a discussion of the legacy of Roe v. Wade and the continual political and structural impediments to Reproductive Justice for poor women and women of color.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;@ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/42950538051</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/42950538051</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:10:41 -0500</pubDate><category>40th Anniversary Carolina Abortion Fund Chicago Abortion Fund Cynthia Greenlee Gaylon Alcaraz Left of Black NewBlackMan (in Exile) Reproduct</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E17 | Slavery in the Post Civil Rights...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/r8LVBNWqECY?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E17 | Slavery in the Post Civil Rights Imagination; Black Radicalism in the Muslim Third World Imagination&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In her new book &lt;em&gt;Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post Civil Rights Imagination&lt;/em&gt; (Duke University Press), University of Pennsylvania Professor &lt;strong&gt;Salamishah Tillet&lt;/strong&gt; examines the ways Black artists and writers have democratized US memory by revisiting the “sites of slavery.”  For Tillet, this is the natural extension of a segment of the American population that&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; despite possessing “legal” citizenship, continues to experience “Civic Estrangement.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;As Black American artists and writers have sought to reframe the past, the Muslim Third World has also reached back to Black American history finding political and cultural inspiration in the Black Radical traditions of Malcolm X and others—traditions that were themselves inspired by Muslim Third World resistance in Algiers and Iraq in the mid-20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century.  UC-Irvine Professor Sohail Daulatzai makes these powerful connections in his new book &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom Beyond America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt; (University of Minnesota Press).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Professors Tillet and Daulatzai join Duke University Professor and Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal on the February 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in  @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/42386272763</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/42386272763</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:38:55 -0500</pubDate><category>Black Radicalism Black Star Crescent Moon Left of Black Mark Anthony Neal Muslim Third World Post-Civil Rights Salamishah Tillet Sites of Sl</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E16 | Dr. Luke Powery Discusses His New...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/34iChnupnME?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E16 | Dr. Luke Powery Discusses His New Book—‘Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death and Hope’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;In a year marked by no less than sixteen mass shootings in the United States, including shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado &lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the murder of twenty children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was perhaps the most tragic of exclamation points.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook murders, women and men of faith were challenged to make sense of what was so obviously senseless.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Throughout his career, preacher and scholar &lt;strong&gt;Dr. Luke A Powery&lt;/strong&gt;, has attempted to strike the right chord with regards to the reality of death and the responsibility of those in the pulpit.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;In his new book &lt;em&gt;Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death and Hope &lt;/em&gt;(Fortress Press), Dr. Powery writes, “In order to experience life, resurrection, or hope, one must go through death…yet in many contemporary churches, some preachers avoid dealing with death because they do not realize its vital connection the substance of Christian hope.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Because of this denial of death, we are left with sermons that possess a weak pnuematology and are fundamentally hopeless.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Dr. Powery, the first Black Dean of the &lt;a href="http://chapel.duke.edu/"&gt;Chapel at &lt;strong&gt;Duke University&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, sits down with host &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt; in the &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; Studios to discuss death, preaching, and hope in times of despair.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in  @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/41750181738</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/41750181738</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:06:00 -0500</pubDate><category>Luke Powery</category><category>Dem Dry Bones</category><category>Death</category><category>Hope</category><category>Preaching</category><category>Duke University Chapel</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category><category>Left of Black</category><category>Sandy Hook</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E15 | Filmmaker Byron Hurt Discusses His New...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jU5l3cp0hI0?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Left of Black S3:E15 | Filmmaker &lt;em&gt;Byron Hurt&lt;/em&gt; Discusses His New Film &lt;em&gt;Soul Food Junkies&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Byron Hurt’s late father was like the many Americans whose unhealthy diets led to a shortened lifespan.  Alarmed by what he saw as a problem among African Americans, &lt;strong&gt;Byron Hurt&lt;/strong&gt;, whose last film was the award-winning &lt;em&gt;Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes&lt;/em&gt; decided to a more intimate look eating habits within Black communities.  With &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itvs.org/films/soul-food-junkies"&gt;Soul Food Junkies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Hurt travels from his New Jersey home to the deep South to find out more about Soul Food and its lasting effects on Black communities.  Among those featured in &lt;em&gt;Soul Food Junkies&lt;/em&gt;, which debuted on the PBS series &lt;em&gt;Independent Lens&lt;/em&gt; on January 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;,  are eco-chef and food activist &lt;strong&gt;Bryant Terry&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Sonia Sanchez&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Dick Gregory&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Michaela Angela Davis&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Marc Lamont Hill&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;On the Spring Premiere of &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; Byron Hurt talks to host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt; about his journey to &lt;strong&gt;Soul Food Junkies&lt;/strong&gt;, the connection between healthy lifestyles and Black masculinity, the challenges faced by Black documentary filmmakers and the controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s new film &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in  @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/40649063653</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/40649063653</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:23:27 -0500</pubDate><category>Byron Hurt</category><category>Soul Food Junkies</category><category>African Americans</category><category>Django Unchained</category><category>left of black</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category></item><item><title>Filmmaker Byron Hurt Talks About His New Film Soul Food Junkies...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0f18dda25ea5c6d8ba5e773ae3c5aad2/tumblr_mglelxK0w11qg2w0po1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Filmmaker Byron Hurt Talks About His New Film &lt;em&gt;Soul Food Junkies &lt;/em&gt;on the Spring Premiere of ‘Left of Black’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Byron Hurt’s late father was like the many Americans whose unhealthy diets led to a shortened lifespan.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Alarmed by what he saw as a problem among African Americans, &lt;strong&gt;Byron Hurt&lt;/strong&gt;, whose last film was the award-winning &lt;em&gt;Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes&lt;/em&gt; decided to a more intimate look eating habits within Black communities.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;With &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itvs.org/films/soul-food-junkies"&gt;Soul Food Junkies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Hurt travels from his New Jersey home to the deep South to find out more about Soul Food and its lasting effects on Black communities.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Among those featured in &lt;em&gt;Soul Food Junkies&lt;/em&gt;, which debuts on the PBS series &lt;em&gt;Independent Lens&lt;/em&gt; on January 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;,&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;are eco-chef and food activist &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Bryant Terry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Sonia Sanchez&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Dick Gregory&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Michaela Angela Davis&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Marc Lamont Hill&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;On the January 14th episode of &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; Byron Hurt talks to host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt; about &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;his journey to &lt;strong&gt;Soul Food Junkies&lt;/strong&gt;, the connection between healthy lifestyles and Black masculinity, the challenges faced by Black documentary filmmakers and the controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s new film &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FranklinCenterAtDuke"&gt;FranklinCenterAtDuke&lt;/a&gt; Channel on Youtube: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FranklinCenterAtDuke"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FranklinCenterAtDuke"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/user/FranklinCenterAtDuke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Follow Left of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Follow Mark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackMan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Follow Byron Hurt on Twitter: @ByronHurt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/40481935170</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/40481935170</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:53:57 -0500</pubDate><category>left of black</category><category>byron hurt</category><category>soul food junkies</category><category>pbs</category><category>independent lens</category><category>soul food</category><category>african americans</category><category>mark anthony neal</category><category>duke university</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E13 | Cable News, ‘Scary’ Black People &amp;...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7kC_L0GFWeg?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E13 | Cable News, ‘Scary’ Black People &amp; Black Nerds &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Journalist &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ericdeggans.com/"&gt;Eric Deggans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Television &amp; Media Critic for &lt;em&gt;The Tampa Bay Times&lt;/em&gt;, is one of a handful of Black journalists working in such positions at major newspapers in the United States.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;From his perch, Deggans has a unique vantage to gauge the role of mainstream corporate media.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Many of those insights are contained in Deggans’s new book &lt;em&gt;Race Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation&lt;/em&gt; (Palgrave McMillian).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;A long time contributor to National Public Radio and the Huffington Post, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ericdeggans.com/"&gt;Deggans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; talks with &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; host and &lt;strong&gt;Duke University&lt;/strong&gt; Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;about the politics of cable news networks, the proliferation of ‘Scary’ Black people in the media and Black Nerds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in  @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/37669207455</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/37669207455</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:20:47 -0500</pubDate><category>Eric Deggans</category><category>Race Baiter</category><category>Cable News</category><category>Scary Black People</category><category>Black Nerds</category><category>Left of Black</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E12 | The Politics of Pleasure and the Power of...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_CpkIF79n5g?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E12 | The Politics of Pleasure and the Power of Alternative Politics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;December 3, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;For more than twenty-years &lt;strong&gt;Joan Morgan&lt;/strong&gt;, journalist, feminist thinker, and author of the classic &lt;em&gt;When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life As a Hip-Hop Feminist&lt;/em&gt;, has been at the forefront of questions regarding the intersections of gender, sexuality and Transnational Blackness.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Morgan joins &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; host and Duke University Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt;, via Skype, to talk about her new venture &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.byemilyjayne.com/"&gt;Emily Jayne Butters and Fragrances&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and her current scholarly work, theorizing the “pleasure principle” in the lives of Black Women.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Emily Jayne’s newest fragrance “Wench” is, perhaps, where Morgan’s two worlds, collide.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Later Neal is joined, also via Skype, by San Francisco State University Sociologist &lt;strong&gt;Andreana Clay&lt;/strong&gt;, who talks about her new book &lt;span class="usercontent"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=5085#.ULzuyYWmDqQ"&gt;The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (New York University Press, 2012).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;*** &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in  @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/37142966319</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/37142966319</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:24:40 -0500</pubDate><category>Joan Morgan</category><category>Andreana Clay</category><category>Pleasure</category><category>touch</category><category>Black women</category><category>hip-hop generation</category><category>politics</category><category>Left of Black</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category></item><item><title>


Left of Black S3:E11 | Everyday Racism, Everyday...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0F-0H7HNRiA?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E11 | Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;November 26, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;On Thursday, November 8, 2012, &lt;a href="http://hastac.org/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HASTAC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) sponsored &lt;em&gt;Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia:  A Symposium on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality &lt;/em&gt;at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The event featured &lt;strong&gt;Jack Halberstam&lt;/strong&gt;, Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California, and author of the recently published &lt;em&gt;Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal &lt;/em&gt;(Beacon);  &lt;strong&gt;Marlon Ross&lt;/strong&gt;, Professor on English at the University of Virginia and author  of  &lt;em&gt;Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era&lt;/em&gt; (NYU Press); &lt;strong&gt;Kathryn Bond Stockton&lt;/strong&gt;, Distinguished Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Utah and author of &lt;em&gt;Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer”&lt;/em&gt;; and &lt;strong&gt;Sharon Patricia Holland&lt;/strong&gt;, Associate Professor of English and African &amp; African American Studies at Duke University and the author of the just published &lt;em&gt;The Erotic Life of Racism &lt;/em&gt;(Duke University Press).  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The event was moderated by &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; host and Duke University Professor, &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in  @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;iTunes U&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/36626909871</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/36626909871</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:26:40 -0500</pubDate><category>Everyday</category><category>Racism</category><category>homophobia</category><category>Sharon Holland</category><category>Marlon Ross</category><category>Jack Halberstam</category><category>Kathryn Bond Stockton</category><category>HASTAC</category><category>Left of Black</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E10 | Who is Black in Multiracial...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tXCdBVA5Au8?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E10 | Who is Black in Multiracial America?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;November 19, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within a political economy of race and difference, was a blatant attempt to embolden Whiteness and the privilege that derived from it.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Scholar &lt;strong&gt;Yaba Blay&lt;/strong&gt; offers a different view of the “one drop” rule with her multi-media project &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://1nedrop.com/"&gt;(1)ne Drop&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;which “seeks to challenge narrow, yet popular perceptions of what Blackness is and what Blackness looks like.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Blay, a Visiting Professor of African&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt; Studies at Drexel University and contributing producer to CNN’s &lt;em&gt;Black in America 5&lt;/em&gt;, which was inspired by the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://1nedrop.com/"&gt;(1)ne Drop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; project, joins Duke University Professor&lt;strong&gt; Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt; on the November 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; episode of Left of Black to talk about the complexities of Black identity.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Neal is also joined by University of WashingtonProfessor &lt;strong&gt;Habiba Ibrahim&lt;/strong&gt; for part two of an interview about her new book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/troubling-the-family"&gt;Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (University of Minnesota Press).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in  @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/36080097409</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/36080097409</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:45:46 -0500</pubDate><category>Yaba Blay</category><category>(1)ne Drop</category><category>Blackness</category><category>Identity</category><category>Habiba Ibrahim</category><category>Multiracialism</category><category>Left of Black</category><category>John Hope Franklin Center</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category></item><item><title>Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sXCNEK8USZ8?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;November 12, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.clearlyinvisiblebook.com/aboutbook"&gt;Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Baylor University Press), &lt;strong&gt;Marcia Dawkins&lt;/strong&gt;, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California provides a fresh take on the practice arguing that passing in the contemporary moment transcends racial performance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Dawkins talks about her new book with &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; host and &lt;strong&gt;Duke University&lt;/strong&gt; Professor &lt;strong&gt;Mark Anthony Neal&lt;/strong&gt;, via Skype.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Neal is also joined by University of Washington Professor &lt;strong&gt;Habiba Ibrahim&lt;/strong&gt; for part one of a two-part interview about her new book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/troubling-the-family"&gt;Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (University of Minnesota Press) in which she links the rise of Multiracialism in the 1990s to the maintenance of traditional gender norms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&gt;Left of Black&lt;/a&gt; is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the &lt;a href="http://jhfc.duke.edu/"&gt;John Hope Franklin Center&lt;/a&gt; at Duke University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Episodes of &lt;strong&gt;Left of Black&lt;/strong&gt; are also available for free download in  @ &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/left-of-black/id420542310"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;iTunes U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/35600752875</link><guid>http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/post/35600752875</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:22:00 -0500</pubDate><category>Marcia Dawkins</category><category>Habiba Ibrahim</category><category>multiracial</category><category>passing</category><category>left of black</category><category>Mark Anthony Neal</category><category>John Hope Franklin Center</category><category>Duke University</category></item></channel></rss>
