'Compton is a community whose portrayal in music and movies eclipses the lives of real people who live there. It's also a city where healthy food can be hard to come by and life expectancy is five years below the Los Angeles County average. Jamie Yuccas talks with Lemel Durrah , chef and owner of Compton Vegan for the CBS This Morning series A More Perfect Union .' -- CBS This Morning
'Former Young Lord and poet, Felipe Luciano joins social justice activist, Iman Abdul , as they discuss the Boricua community and its involvement in Black liberation movements.' -- Caribbean Cultural Center [CCCADI]
'In more than 40 states, it is legal for Black individuals to be sent home from school or fired from their jobs for wearing their natural hair. While legislation is currently working to make hair discrimination illegal in the United States, the Black female experience is greatly impacted by the Eurocentric standards of beauty that are introduced to girls at a young age. Just Hair explores Makeba
' Mahershala Ali , star of the upcoming Blade reboot, goes inside his unique upbringing, conversion to Islam, the controversy behind his Green Book Oscar win, and hopes for his exciting new role as an iconic Black superhero.' -- The Tight Rope
' When we think of the iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the US, we might imagine bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins or the March on Washington. Most of us won’t think of protests at beaches and pools. Yet these battles in the country’s waters played a crucial role in transforming America. The campaign in the waters of St. Augustine, Florida, became one of the most critical in the m
“I feel like Zora Neale Hurston has had a connection to me since the first day I turned the page of Their Eyes Were Watching God when I was in high school...And I was immediately connecting with so much of the issues she was referencing — colorism and sexism, the negotiation of what's respectable behavior — all those things that a Black teenage girl is defining for herself.” -- Candice Hoyes
'Legendary M.C. Rakim goes deep with The Tight Rope hosts Tricia Rose and Cornel West about the state of hip hop, the origins of his rhymes, and the roots of his pure imagination. Plus, the professors weigh a whistleblower's allegations about nonconsenting hysterectomies in a private ICE detention facility.'
. Woke , a new comedy on Hulu, is inspired by the life of its creator, Keith Knight . The show, which blends reality and animated fantasy, follows Keef, a Black cartoonist who is on the cusp of mainstream success when an ugly incident with the police changes his life. Suddenly, Keef is learning about racism from a chatty trash can and other talking cartoon objects, and he experiences a belated po
' Dawn Blagrove identified her life's work at an early age. As a young girl growing up in 1970s segregated Milwaukee, she read Sam Greenlee's novel The Spook Who Sat By The Door . It tells the story of a Black CIA operative who goes undercover within the system and takes what he learned back to his Chicago neighborhood to help young people start a revolution. The book was one of many Black nation
'Coffee & Books host Marc Lamont Hill is in conversation with New York Times best selling author, Mychal Denzel Smith , dissecting his recent book; Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream .'
' James Leloudis , professor of history at UNC Chapel Hill, and Robert Korstad , professor of public policy at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, join Dean Judith Kelley to discuss the implications of voter suppression on the upcoming election and the complicated legacy of voting rights in the state. Jim and Bob are co-authors of the recently released book Fragile Democracy: The Struggle O
'Author, activist, and novelist Arundhati Roy joins us from Delhi to discuss her new collection of essays, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction . Roy is well known for her impassioned political writing, as well as her two novels, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness , and The God of Small Things , which won the Man Booker in 1997. She talks with us about the rise of Indian nationalism, Modi’s descent int
' Yinka Adegoke , Africa editor of the online financial news site Quartz , is closely following the unfolding debt crisis in Africa and China's role in the situation. He joins Eric & Cobus from the Quartz newsroom in New York to discuss the financial crisis and how it's impacting the broader China-Africa relationship.' -- The China Africa Project The China Africa Project ·
'Despite men spending more time at home since March, domestic responsibilities are disproportionately falling on women, everything from doing the housework to teaching their children. In some cases, working women have had to reduce their working hours 4 to 5 times more than their male counterparts. For more on this unequal division of labor, The Takeaway spoke to Caitlyn Collins , assistant profe
'A new documentary tells the story of how the creation and erasure of a local mural catalyzed an anti-gentrification coalition in Oakland, California. Director Spencer Wilkinson joins us to discuss the film, Alice Street, which is screened at the Urbanworld Film Festival .'-- All Of It
'Eight out of 10 American COVID-19 deaths have been among people older than 65; the rest of the dead are disproportionately Black. Olga Khazan , staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World , talks about how 'empathy fatigue,' the point in a mass tragedy where we no longer see victims as individuals but statistics, is heightened by racis
'The editors Soyica Diggs Colbert , Douglas A. Jones, Jr. , and Shane Vogel of Race and Performance after Repetition discuss the major themes of the collection with contributors Joshua Chambers-Letson , Tavia Nyong'o , and Elizabeth W. Son , exploring how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time.'
' Ledisi 's legacy is one to beat. Her vocals have been praised on stages around the world throughout her long-standing career and she's picked up not 1 but 12 Grammy nominations along the way. To celebrate the release of her latest album, #TheWildCard , she joins us for a #SongAssociation challenge. Tune in as she sings Tina Turner, Chaka Khan and more in a race against the clock.' -- ELLE
' 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
