Credit: Bryan Thomas | @DrBenChavis | special to NewBlackMan (in Exile) 2020 brought renewed global focus to issues of social justice in America. From the racial disparities and inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic to the killings of George Floyd and so many other Black and Brown Americans at the hands of police officers have all contributed to the evolving social justice “reckoning”
'For more than 50 years, the NCAA has imposed academic rules to make sure college athletes aren't just athletes, and the decades-long process has generated plenty of controversy. Critics claim the academic standards, and the penalties for not meeting them, discriminate against Black college athletes and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.Now, lawyers have filed a class action, civil rig
' PJ Morton 's new song, written for Morning Edition 's Song Project, is about working — alongside the whole world — to get through a year of challenges and loss.'
'NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with filmmaker Ekwa Msangi about her new movie, Farewell Amor , which tells the story of a family reunited in New York City after 17 years apart due to visa issues.'
' Kimberly Mack and Emily J. Lordi in conversation about Mack’s book, Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White (University of Massachusetts Press, December 2020). They talk about multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to writing about music, with a specific focus on music and literature. Within the context of Fictional Blues, Mack and Lordi have a larg
Student protests have become a part of campus life to gain equity and visibility from university administrators. The 1989 Howard University protests were no different in raising issues of the time for a more Afrocentric curriculum among other concerns. Joshua M. Myers , Assistant Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, joins Left of Black hos
'NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Saïs Kamalidiin , a Howard University professor, about a new collection showcasing 25 recordings of early Black classical musicians, called Black Swans .' -- All Things Considered
