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Artist Otobong Nkanga: 'Imagining the Scars of a Landscape' |

by Mark Anthony Neal / 20h

' Otobong Nkanga reflects on the politics of land and body through tapestry, drawing, photography, installation, video and performance. Her work engages with the difficult histories of land acquisition and ownership, as well as the processes and consequences of the extraction of natural resources. This ongoing exploration into the transformation of minerals into desirable commodities - including

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

by Mark Anthony Neal / 20h

'Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas taught in public schools for several years after graduating from Florida A&M, a historically Black university in Tallahassee, Florida. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 2010, she returned to her master's degree institution, Wayne State University, as an assistant professor of Reading, Language, and Literature in t

The Veiled Rapper Breaking Taboos for Women in Senegal

by Mark Anthony Neal / 20h

' Mina La Voilée is a female rapper from Parcelles, Dakar, who is breaking taboos by rapping about women's rights. As a woman who chooses to wear a veil, she explains how criticism from industry professionals who told her "the veil and hip hop don't flow together" drove her to succeed, and inspired her to tackle other controversial societal issues in her lyrics such as child marriage, rape and in

#BackChannel: The Year of Lizzo, Nipsey Hussle’s Booklist, Plus the Ghost of Atlantics, The Tulsa Race Riots and 1960s Harlem

by Mark Anthony Neal / 21h

On this episode of #BackChannel, State of Things host Frank Stasio is joined by regular contributors Natalie Bullock Brown and Mark Anthony Neal to discuss the impact of Lizzo, the late Nipsey Hussle’s reading list, as well as HBO’s The Watchman , EPIX’s The Godfather of Harlem and the new film Atlantics , directed by Mati Diop.

Left of Black S10:E7: Historian Peter Cole on Race, Activism and Dock Workers in South Africa and San Francisco

by Mark Anthony Neal / 22h

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in the studio by Dr. Peter Cole ( @ ProfPeterCole ), an assistant professor in the Department of History at Western Illinois University. His latest book Dockworker 

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