Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in the studio by Dr. Petal Samuel ( @iounalao ), an assistant professor in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
' Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor speaks with New Dawn host Michael Dawson about her new book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership . She talks about how Black urban identity is constructed, why she is against homeownership, and how the housing crisis isn't a crisis but a feature of society.'
On this episode of #BackChannel , contributors Natalie Bullock Brown and Mark Anthony Neal , discuss with State of Things host Frank Stasio, the Colin Kaepernick “workout”, recent meditations on the parenting of Black Boys – Imani Perry ’s Breathe and Netflix’s American Son – a new documentary about the Apollo Theater, and two new films, Hariett (directed by Kasi Lemmons ) and the debut of 19-yea
'On this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with activist, community organizer, National Surrogate for Bernie Sanders, and co-founder of The Dream Defenders , Phillip Agnew . Over the course of the next hour and change, the trio dives deep into the importance of HBCUs to the black community, the case for electing Bernie Sanders, and the issues of reparations and iden
Bob Thompson, Garden of Music, 1960. 'Independent curator, Faron Manuel and Jamaal Barber of Studio Noize Podcast interview Frank Mitchell , curator of the exhibition Afrocosmologies: American Reflections at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art for this episode of BAIA Talks. The exhibition brings together the work of an incredible assortment of artists including Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Elizabeth
' Whoopi Goldberg , the legendary actor and comedian, sits down with Bevy Smith for a warm and intimate talk about Goldberg's book, The Unqualified Hostess: I Do It My Way so You Can Too! Recorded November 14, 2019, at the 92nd Street Y' .
' Yogita Goyal , author of Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery , joins Eric, Medaya, and Kate to discuss the shape of traditional slave narrative and the ways it has been transformed over the past 70 years across the world and in different genres. Goyal talks about what drew her to this subject, and about teaching the slave story in the Trump and Kanye era. She contrasts abolitionist
'Sociologist Intan Suwandi explores the mechanisms of power in the global economy - as multinational corporations expand their reach into the Global South, they maintain control over technology and commodity chains, extracting and transferring value back to to the Global North, unit by unit, worker by worker. Suwandi is author of the book Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism from Monthly Re
' Ghazi Hussein is an award winning Palestinian poet and writer living in Edinburgh. Born in exile in Syria he was first imprisoned at the age of 14, he was never charged but was 'guilty of carrying thoughts'. Repeatedly imprisoned and tortured over the next 20 years he says that writing poetry saved his sanity. Ghazi eventually arrived in Scotland in 2000. After a three year legal battle, the le
' Dawoud Bey knows how to photograph people. He’s been doing it practically his whole life. What he wasn’t so sure about was turning his lens away from faces and bodies and toward the more elusive notions of place and time.' -- Chicago magazine
'Two time Emmy award winning journalist and poet Felipe Luciano is considered one of the top 8 Afro-Latinos who have made huge contributions to the history of the United States. In this interview with Lydia Nicole , he describes how he became involved with the Young Lords Party . Through student activism on campus, Felipe Luciano co-founded the Young Lords Organization New York Branch – a Puerto
'A docuseries that explores racially charged social issues through disarmingly candid conversations – led by author, filmmaker, recording artist, and educator, MK Asante . Produced by Indigo Development, Entertainment Arts and Main Event Media.' -- Snap Originals
'Journalist Bakari Kitwana introduces, and interviews, artist Theaster Gates at the Cleveland Museum of Art on November 20, 2019, two days before the 5th anniversary of the killing of Tamir Rice by a Cleveland Police officer.' --
