'During Black History Month and Women's History Month, concert halls, music venues, and radio programs highlight diverse composers and musicians — like Florence Price . The African American composer's work was turned down by many symphonies, but in the past decade, she has started to get some air-time. WQXR writer James Bennett says, "my concern is that tastemakers will stop at that. You know the
' Fata and Yankuba are two young Gambians with ambitious dreams, who fled dictatorship and poverty and landed in Naples, only to discover a new kind of violence: a pernicious climate of racism and an unhelpful immigration system. Their only escape from the psychological torture of years spent waiting for documents in squalid camps is a small underground club in the heart of the city. The Teranga
'In this episode of People's Party , Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with rapper and writer Rapsody . This introspective interview highlights the huge contribution this talented lyricist has made in bringing the B-Girl back to the forefront of the culture. They discuss her growing up in the tiny town of Snowhill, NC; she speaks on being largely inspired to rap from growing up listening to M
' Kim Wayans was carefree with a teenage spirit in her 20s. She shares what she learned from the industry, from her brothers and so much more.' -- BETNetworks
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in the studio by Dr. Courtney R. Baker ( @DrProfBlackLady ), an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death (University of Illinois Press, 2015), which “questions the relationship between the s
'Writer Asad Haider examines the problems of depoliticization in modern politics -- as the dominant ideological frame blinds us to the limits of our present politics and the possibilities of future alignments, the left must confront the failures of past revolutions and realize that another world is not just possible, it's necessary. Haider wrote the essay On Depoliticization for Viewpoint .' -- T
'This episode of Cite Black Women features a conversation Professors Carole Boyce Davies , Yomaira Figueroa and Bedour Alagraa on Sylvia Wynter , Caribbean philosophy and the intellectual contributions of Black women to the Americas. It was recorded during the Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South (Lozano Long) Conference at The University of
'Ahmed Osman , a Sudanese development economist who met Malcolm X in July 1963, would go on to play a critical role in Malcolm X’s life and death — drawing him to Sunni Islam, organizing his hajj to Mecca, and even speaking at
