' Paul Holdengräber is joined by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. , on episode 104 of The Quarantine Tapes . Eddie’s latest book, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own , looks to Baldwin’s writing for guidance for our own moment. Paul and Eddie’s conversation opens up Eddie’s experience of writing this book, discussing how he grappled with the form of biography, literary cri
In this installment of Duke University's Black Alumni series Black in 2020 , Duke Professors Anthony Kelley (Music) and Mark Anthony Neal (African & African-American Studies) are joined by Professor Shana Redmond (UCLA), author of Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson , for a conversation about the historical and contemporary role that protest music has played in the fight for jus
' Durham-based musician A.yoni Jeffries understands discouragement. Her latest album, Potential Gon’ Pay , was delayed three times this year. But the 25-year-old never stays discouraged for long. In the interim, while she awaited a new release date, she focused her attention on a new endeavor, Handèwa Farms , which she launched in December 2019 with eight partners. Many of them, including herself
'On episode 105 of The Quarantine Tapes , Paul Holdengräber is joined by Lisa Lucas . As the incoming senior vice president of Pantheon and Schocken Books, Lisa talks about her experiences in publishing and her excitement about the potential of her new position. Their conversation covers equity in publishing for people of color and other marginalized groups and how Lisa has found herself feeling
'"When George Floyd got killed, look at how the young people stood up across the nation. Everybody felt a certain type of pain...they were tired and rebellious...if you think you are gonna handle us any kind of way we gonna go against it..." Trae The Truth spoke on connecting to the younger generation at the opening panel of the #HipHopPoliticalEducationSummit . The panel also included Dr. Cornel
'As public lockdowns were implemented across the country to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, many states' court systems also significantly reduced their activities, shut down in-person hearings, or indefinitely postponed routine matters. According to a Ballotpedia tracker, courts in every single U.S. state were impacted by these closures at some point during the pandemic, through a suspension of
'A new documentary from The New York Times Presents digs into official reports and documents to piece together what went wrong. The Killing of Breonna Taylor also paints a picture of who she was as a person through interviews with Taylor’s friends and family. Host Frank Stasio talks about the story with Natalie Bullock Brown and Mark Anthony Neal as well as untangle the many threads of HBO’s new
'Guitarist, composer, and songwriter Yasmin Williams is both a multi-instrumentalist and multi-tasker. She’s a fingerstyle lap-tapping guitar player who sits and rests the guitar in her lap, to make the guitar into a table on which she sometimes mounts a kalimba; her distinct style also leaves her tap shoe-wearing feet available for her to make beats. Williams also plays banjo, bass, kora, and as
'In their latest poetry collections, Krista Franklin and Nate Marshall both offer visions of liberation. Franklin’s Too Much Midnight explores portraiture and collage as strategies for radical imaginings, while Marshall’s FINNA celebrates Black vernacular as uplifting “Black possibility, Black future, Blackness as tomorrow”. Franklin and Marshall are joined by the poet Parneshia Jones for a discu
' The number of Black gun buyers in the U.S. is rising and it’s not because of the NRA, which historically supported limiting Black people’s right to bear arms publicly. Black gun owners in the U.S. find Second Amendment rights apply differently to them. So what does it mean to be a Black gun owner in a nation with a history of limiting Black people’s access to firearms?' -- AJ+
' Bootsy Collins transforms The Tight Rope on this Special Funk Edition. Bootsy, Dr. Cornel West , and Professor Tricia Rose talk all things funk in the context of the perils of following trends, the process of self-acceptance and self-discovery, confronting fear, and the “manipulation of the funk.” Bootsy shares details about his upcoming album The Power of the One . Hear what funk means to Boot
'Writer Anne Helen Petersen , creator of the newsletter Culture Study, joins us to discuss her new book , Can't Even: . The book expands upon Petersen’s viral article on millennial burnout, which was Buzzfeed News’ most-read article in 2019, with thousands of interviews with millennials across the race, gender, socioeconomic, and ability spectrum.' -- All Of It
'"It's our turn to lead our own fight, to frame our own conversations," said Benjamin O'Keefe, a Black political organizer in Brooklyn where protests have continued since late May after George Floyd, a Black man, was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis.' -- All Things Considered
'In 2015, Oddisee visited the Tiny Desk with a drummer and a keyboardist. For his Tiny Desk (home) concert, he assembled his full band, Good Company, for the first time since the global pandemic cancelled their tour last spring. The five captivating songs are from his new EP, Odd Cure , "a record I didn't want to write but needed to," Oddisee said in July. He wrote it in eight weeks, between Marc
'Photographer Janna Ireland aims to capture intimacy and relationships in her work, which she says focuses primarily on Black life in America. In a new book, Ireland turns her lens outward, to showcase the legacy of barrier-breaking architect Paul R. Williams , and introduce his work to a larger audience. Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View is a collection of 280 photographs by Irel
'Independent country music recording artist Rissi Palmer is not surprised by the feedback she has received about her new Apple Music radio show “Color Me Country Radio,” which explores Black, Latinx and Indigenous voices in country music. She has heard everything from, “Is this a limited series? You’re going to run out of people to talk to!” to “Why does everything have to be about race”?'
'Before the pandemic hit, actor Wendell Pierce was jetsetting around the world, filming scenes for the Amazon series Jack Ryan and starring in a London production of Death of a Salesman . But in March, as the realities of the pandemic set in, he decided to head back to his hometown of New Orleans, where his 95-year-old father still lives in Wendell's childhood home. "I'm going to look on the brig
' For months, protests over the police involved killing of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, George Floyd in Minnesota and others around the country reinvigorated an intense debate over policing. Then when Greg Fischer, mayor of Louisville, Ky., recently announced the city would pay $12 million to Taylor's family and institute a number of police reforms, that highlighted an aspect less discussed — the
'In 1965, the two intellectuals debated whether the American dream "is at the expense of the American Negro." The Atlantic 's David Frum and Harvard's Khalil Muhammad are now revisiting the idea. '
' Michael Kenneth Williams takes Vanity Fair through his storied acting career, breaking down his roles in 'Bullet,' 'Bringing Out the Dead,' 'The Sopranos,' 'The Wire,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' 'The Gambler,' 'Bessie,' 'The Night Of,' 'When
