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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’
Guest host and Columbia University Professor Alondra Nelson sits down in the Left of Black studios with Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal to discuss his new book Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (NYU Press).
Nelson is associate professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University and the author of the award winning Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and the forthcoming The Social Life of DNA: Race and Reconciliation after the Genome (Beacon Press). Neal is the author of several books including New Black Man (2005) and Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic, and the host of Left of Black.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
Left of Black S3:E27 | Queer Sounds & Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by DePaul University Professor Francesca Royster, the author of the new book Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (University of Michigan Press).
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.
Royster is also the author of Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
Left of Black S3:E26 | Black Digital Sci-Fi & Black Girls in the ‘New’ South
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by Keith Josef Adkins, writer and director of the digital Sci-Fi series ‘The Abandon.’
Later Neal is joined by University of Georgia professor Bettina Love, author of the new book ‘Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South’ (Peter Lang Publishing)
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Centerat Duke University.
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Left of Black S3:E25 | The Enduring Legacy of Angela Davis
Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, by film director Shola Lynch in a conversation about her new film Free Angela and All Politics Prisoners and the enduring legacy of Angela Davis as an intellectual and cultural icon.
Lynch’s credits include the award winning Chisholm ‘72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004). Free Angela and All Political Prisoners opened in selected cities on April 5, 2013, and was executive produced by Overbrook Entertainment and Roc Nation.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
Left of Black S3:E24 | Gun Violence, Rape Culture and the Assault on Voting Rights
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined, via Skype, Akiba Solomon, Managing Editor of Colorlines Magazine, and journalist and activist Kevin Alexander Gray.
Solomon is the coeditor with Ayana Byrd of Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts. Gray is the author of Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics. He is the managing editor of The New Liberator.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
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 the United States, including shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado 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.
In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook murders, women and men of faith were challenged to make sense of what was so obviously senseless.
Throughout his career, preacher and scholar Dr. Luke A Powery, has attempted to strike the right chord with regards to the reality of death and the responsibility of those in the pulpit. In his new book Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death and Hope (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. Because of this denial of death, we are left with sermons that possess a weak pnuematology and are fundamentally hopeless.”
Dr. Powery, the first Black Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, sits down with host Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black Studios to discuss death, preaching, and hope in times of despair.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
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 led to a shortened lifespan. Alarmed by what he saw as a problem among African Americans, Byron Hurt, whose last film was the award-winning Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes decided to a more intimate look eating habits within Black communities. With Soul Food Junkies, 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 Soul Food Junkies, which debuted on the PBS series Independent Lens on January 14th, are eco-chef and food activist Bryant Terry, Sonia Sanchez, Dick Gregory, Michaela Angela Davis, and Marc Lamont Hill.
On the Spring Premiere of Left of Black Byron Hurt talks to host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal about his journey to Soul Food Junkies, the connection between healthy lifestyles and Black masculinity, the challenges faced by Black documentary filmmakers and the controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
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 diets led to a shortened lifespan. Alarmed by what he saw as a problem among African Americans, Byron Hurt, whose last film was the award-winning Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes decided to a more intimate look eating habits within Black communities. With Soul Food Junkies, 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 Soul Food Junkies, which debuts on the PBS series Independent Lens on January 14th, are eco-chef and food activist Bryant Terry, Sonia Sanchez, Dick Gregory, Michaela Angela Davis, and Marc Lamont Hill.
On the January 14th episode of Left of Black Byron Hurt talks to host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal about his journey to Soul Food Junkies, the connection between healthy lifestyles and Black masculinity, the challenges faced by Black documentary filmmakers and the controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained.
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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the FranklinCenterAtDuke Channel on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FranklinCenterAtDuke
Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.
Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.
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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 of Black journalists working in such positions at major newspapers in the United States. From his perch, Deggans has a unique vantage to gauge the role of mainstream corporate media. Many of those insights are contained in Deggans’s new book Race Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation (Palgrave McMillian).
A long time contributor to National Public Radio and the Huffington Post, Deggans talks with Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal, about the politics of cable news networks, the proliferation of ‘Scary’ Black people in the media and Black Nerds.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
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 the classic When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life As a Hip-Hop Feminist, has been at the forefront of questions regarding the intersections of gender, sexuality and Transnational Blackness. Morgan joins Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal, via Skype, to talk about her new venture Emily Jayne Butters and Fragrances and her current scholarly work, theorizing the “pleasure principle” in the lives of Black Women. Emily Jayne’s newest fragrance “Wench” is, perhaps, where Morgan’s two worlds, collide.
Later Neal is joined, also via Skype, by San Francisco State University Sociologist Andreana Clay, who talks about her new book The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics (New York University Press, 2012).
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
