' Forest Whitaker breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High , The Last King of Scotland , Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , Arrival , The Color of Money , Bird , Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai , Lee Daniels’ The Butler , Platoon , The Crying Game and Godfather of Harlem .' -- GQ
'Drawn from Bricktop’s Paris and its exploration of Black women expats in Paris, this talk explores the centrality of black women in our cultural imagination, despite their erasure, and Dr. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting ’s own attempts to recover them, beginning with the volume, Black Venus . Dr. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African American and Di
'Author and Journalist, Pamela Newkirk joins Black America with Carol Jenkins to discuss her latest book, Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business and takes a look at this issue in corporate America, academia and Hollywood.'
'Begun just months before his death in 2016, a memoir by the legendary singer-songwriter Prince is now being published as The Beautiful Ones . Jamie Yuccas reports on how the manuscript by Prince Rogers Nelson came to light, and talks with editor Dan Piepenbring , who helped Prince tell his story, including how the people in Prince's life made him the artist he was. Yuccas also talks with represe
' Esperanza Spalding has always resolutely, intuitively, deftly expanded upon both her art and herself as a world-renowned genre-bending composer, bassist and vocalist. Her latest album, 12 Little Spells , explores the healing power of art and how music and the body interact, with each song-spell inspired by a different part of the body. Spalding took the BUILD Series stage to tell us about the L
'How does your identity and community impact your ability to find housing? What needs to change to make housing more accessible and limit discrimination in the housing market? Andre Perry , from the Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution; Melvina Ford , Executive Director of The Equal Rights Center; Lisa Rice , CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance; and Sarah Mickelson , Sen
"A letter from the British government classifying Paulette Wilson as an illegal immigrant shook her sense of identity and belonging. ‘Hostile environment’ policies years in the making meant that Wilson and other victims of the Windrush scandal had their right to residency in the UK called into question. She had been detained for a week pending imminent deportation though she had done nothing wron
Bassey Ikpi , the author of the New York Times bestseller, I’m Telling the Truth but I’m Lying joins Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal at the North Star Church of The Arts in Durham, NC as part of the course Dick Gregory and the History of Black Comedy . The course is offered with the support of Dr. Christian C. Gregory , executor of the Estate of Dick Gregory and the Estate of Jenny Lillian Seman
'The new movie Black and Blue is a thriller about a woman who tries to straddle a divide between two groups of people: African Americans and the police. This is a very American story — and yet Naomie Harris , who carries it, is British. In an interview, she described her preparation for the part, playing her first leading role and how she relates to the themes of police violence and mistrust.' --
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in the studio by Dr. Jakobi Williams ( @jakobiwill ), an associate professor at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of History and Department of African
