'Rap legend DMX breaks down his most iconic tracks, including 'X Gon' Give it to Ya,' 'Ruff Ryder's Anthem,' 'What's My Name?,' 'Party Up (Up in Here),' and 'Where the Hood At?''-- GQ
'In the course of her career, Celia Cruz recorded over 70 albums and received a dozen Grammy nominations. Her powerful voice and charisma made her one of the most popular Latin musicians of the 20th century, earning her the title the "Queen of Salsa." She always carried her African roots into her music, says singer Angélique Kidjo — and that was especially evident in the uniquely rhythmic way she
' Lonnie G. Bunch III is enamored of American history. Last June he was named Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which he calls "part of the glue that holds the country together." Bunch, who oversaw the creation of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, is in charge of 19 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, 7,000 employees, and a budget of $1.5 billion – and is o
Left of Black co-host Sasha Panaram ( @SashaPanaram ) is joined in the studio by Kaneesha Parsard ( @ kaneeshaparsard ). Parsard is a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago where she will begin as an Assistant Professor in 2020. She received her PhD in American studies and African American studies from Yale University in 2017.
'Artist Fahamu Pecou has been wrestling with stereotypes of black masculinity for his entire life. No matter how many degrees he earned or what job he had, he had the sense that he was only seen as a black body. He has always used art as a way to push back, but for a long time he did not touch one particularly charged topic: police-involved shootings of black men. That changed in 2015, after a po
' Emmanuel Pratt is an urban designer. He is integrating agriculture, education, and design in a resident-driven approach to community development and turning neglected urban neighborhoods into places of growth and vitality.' -- macfound
'"Experts don't really have a consensus on the definition of lynching, but generally it's agreed that a lynching occurs when three or more people gather for a public, racialized murder," filmmaker Jacqueline Olive told WNYC 's cultural critic Rebecca Carroll , on the subject of her new documentary film, Always in Season . The film, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and earned a specia
On this episode of #BlackChannel featuring State of Things contributors Natalie Bullock Brown and Mark Anthony Neal , the duo discuss the Emmy Award winning performances of Billy Porter ( Pose ) and Jharrel Jerome ( When They See Us ), as well as the marginalization of Black women in the television industry. Bullock Brown and Neal also highlight new recordings from Missy Elliot ( Iconography ) an
' Kelly Lytle Hernández is a historian. She is challenging long-held beliefs about the origins, ideology, and evolution of incarceration and immigrant detention practices in the United States.' -- macfound
' Saidiya Hartman is a literary scholar and cultural historian. She is tracing the afterlife of slavery in modern American life and rescuing from oblivion stories of sparsely documented lives that have been systematically excluded from
