THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE)
'New York State of Mind'
by Mark Anthony Neal / 14h
'A new short film, "New York State of Mind," is a love letter to New York City that covers the Billy Joel song, New York State of Mind. Created in collaboration with NYC Next, the film is a response to the pandemic and the idea that New York City is "dead." The film features the likes of Adina Menzel, Stephen Colbert, Ben Stiller, and more, as well as landmarks of the city. Director Josh Seftel ,
The Isley Brothers: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
by Mark Anthony Neal / 15h
'Before the Isley Brothers played "That Lady" during this Tiny Desk (at Home) concert, lead singer and founding member Ronald Isley shared two stories about the song that perfectly encapsulates the scope of their nearly seven-decade career. "It reminds me of going way back, when we had Jimi Hendrix living at the house and playing. We went on to meet a young fellow by the name of Kendrick Lamar wh
Pandemic Lessons: Elaine Welteroth And Jonathan Singletary Talk With Lara Downes
by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d
'Fairy tales do come true, but sometimes not quite the way you've imagined. Last spring, Elaine Welteroth and Jonathan Singletary had to give up their plans for a dream wedding. The award-winning journalist/ Project Runway judge/ The Talk host and the musician/producer had been planning epic nuptials to celebrate their epic love story (they knew each other as children, then reconnected after many
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How Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall Is Shaping The NBA’s Future
by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d
' Cynt Marshall , the first Black female CEO in the NBA, took the helm at the Dallas Mavericks in 2018 to help transform the team’s toxic culture. She shares with Moira Forbes how she’s “setting the global standard for diversity and inclusion in the NBA” and opens up on her own personal story of resilience and how it’s made her the game-changing leader she is today.'
The Fight To Preserve Rosenwald Schools
by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d
'Aware of the crucial economic role education can play for the descendants of slaves, Julius Rosenwald , a Chicago philanthropist and Sears, Roebuck president, along with Booker T. Washington , the principal of Tuskeegee Institute, worked with Black communities across the south to build more than 5,000 schools for Black children. This story has been largely washed from our nation’s collective mem
Authors in the Tent: Dennis K. Crosby on the Moral Beauty of Urban Fantasy
by Mark Anthony Neal / 2d
'Authors in the Tent is a professionally filmed series of interviews with established and emerging authors conducted in a tent Ona Russell purchased during the pandemic. Inspired by Boccaio 's Decameron and the 1001 Arabian Nights , the tent—elemental, ancient, and ubiquitous—serves as a magical backdrop for literary conversation. Russell is joined by Dennis K. Crosby , the Amazon Bestselling Aut
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Black America | Representation and Perception: A Conversation with Deborah Willis
by Mark Anthony Neal / 2d
' Deborah Willis joins Black America with Carol Jenkins to discuss her latest work, The Black Civil War Soldier , in which she retells the stories of soldiers captured in photos that are rarely reproduced. Also joining the conversation is her son, Hank Willis Thomas , whose powerful works of art continues to capture us and and bring awareness to representation and perception.'
Cornelius Eady and Joe Morton: Brutal Imagination
by Mark Anthony Neal / 2d
' Brutal Imagination is a National Book Award-nominated poetry collection and an award-winning play about a White woman who fabricated and falsely accused a Black man, Mr. Zero, of murders that she herself committed. Based on real events, the story is an indictment of how the white imagination views Black men. Join the play’s author Cornelius Eady and Joe Morton , who portrays Mr. Zero in the ori
JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA | Shemekia Copeland live at Exit Zero Jazz Festival
by Mark Anthony Neal / 2d
'The Exit Zero Jazz Festival began in 2012 and occurs twice a year in Cape May, the quaint shore town on the most southern tip of New Jersey, with a lineup combining marquee talent with young musicians from around the country. For singer and eight-time Blues Award winner Shemekia Copeland , Exit Zero was only her second gig in front of a crowd in over a year. "I had already told myself we wouldn'
Soundcheck: The Strength, Resilience, and Joy of Songwriter Allison Russell
by Mark Anthony Neal / 3d
'Nashville-based Montreal-born Scottish-Grenadian-Canadian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, poet, mother, and runner Allison Russell (Birds of Chicago, Our Native Daughters, Po’ Girl) presents her a utobiographical record, Outside Child , which sees her breaking the cycles of abuse and violence and celebrating having found her chosen community and chosen family. These cycles of abuse stretch fa
The Culture Corner: How Outkast Put Atlanta On The Map As Hip-Hop's New Epicenter
by Mark Anthony Neal / 3d
'Years before "Hey Ya!" was a household hit, Outkast released their breakthrough album ATLiens . Correspondent John Morrison returns with a new edition of Culture Corner on how ATLiens set Atlanta on its course to become the new epicenter of hip-hop.'
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Dr. Paul Farmer Weighs In On Haiti's Earthquake Recovery
by Mark Anthony Neal / 3d
'Heavy rains from tropical depression Grace are the latest impediment to ongoing rescue efforts in Haiti, following Saturday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake . The official death count from the quake is now close to 1,400 with up to 7,000 injured and 27,000 homes destroyed. Many Haitians are still missing. Here & Now' s Robin Young discusses the situation with Dr. Paul Farmer , co-founder of Partners i
'The State Must Provide' Is A Lesson On Inequality In Higher Ed, Past And Present
by Mark Anthony Neal / 3d
'Journalist Adam Harris , the author of The State Must Provide Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--and How to Set Them Right joins Fresh Air to explain how the higher education system has been built on an uneven foundation from the start — and how slavery, segregation and racism have stymied Black education.'
Edwidge Danticat on the Devastation in Haiti
by Mark Anthony Neal / 3d
'In August of 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, leveling buildings in the western region of the country and killing around 1300 people. Hundreds are still missing and heavy rains from tropical depression Grace make relief efforts more complicated. Before the earthquake, Haiti was already struggling with extreme poverty, systemic gang violence and a political crisis made worse by the
Valerie Cooper: 'Black DEATHS Matter, Too'
by Mark Anthony Neal / 3d
'Dr. Valerie Cooper ’s lecture, titled “ Black Deaths Matter, Too: Doing Racial Reconciliation after the Massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, ” covered how to pursue justice in a contentious age. She is Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School and a 5th generation United Methodist.'
Into America: The Incredible Story of Dewey Bozella's Fight for Freedom
by Mark Anthony Neal / 3d
' Dewey Bozella was 18 years old when he was arrested for murder . It was a terrible crime: An elderly woman had been beaten and suffocated in her home in Poughkeepsie, New York. But Dewey had nothing to do with it. Five years later, Dewey was convicted on flimsy, circumstantial evidence, and became one of the estimated tens of thousands of innocent people stuck in prison for crimes they did not
Identity And Dance: Camille A. Brown Talks With Lara Downes
by Mark Anthony Neal / 4d
'The groundbreaking choreographer, Camille A. Brown , who is also the first Black director at the Metropolitan Opera, tells Amplify With Lara Downes , she found self-expression through dance.'
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The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 3
by Mark Anthony Neal / 4d
'Black No More, White No More. Radiolab follows Harry Pace 's grandkids and great grandkids as they grapple with his legacy in their own lives.'
Otherppl with Brad Listi: Kendra Allen
by Mark Anthony Neal / 4d
' Kendra Allen is the author of the poetry collection The Collection Plate (Ecco). Allen was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She is the recipient of the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction for her essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet , awarded by Kiese Laymon . She has been featured on C-SPAN, interviewed in The Rumpus and Poets & Writers , and her work has been taught by New York T
'Making Good Trouble: Cori Bush' by Ben Jealous
by Mark Anthony Neal / 4d
Making Good Trouble: Cori Bush by Ben Jealous | @BenJealous | NewBlackMan (in Exile) Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who died last year, liked to tell activists that building a better world depended on people being willing to make “good trouble.” Rep. Cori Bush has just given us an example of effective troublemaking that should inspire us to action. Rep. Bush is in her first term as a memb
Afropop Worldwide: Reggaetón and Race
by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d
'The dembow, the beat behind reggaetón, is much more than just a backdrop for a night of partying and dancing. The style of music, widely associated with Puerto Rico and forged from a mixture of Jamaican dancehall, Panamanian reggae en español, and American hip hop, has always existed as a form of social and political resistance. And as such, it has endured constant attempts to criminalize, censo
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The Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Museum Director Lecture: Valerie Cassel Oliver
by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d
'Chautauqua Visual Arts spotlights curator Valerie Cassel Olive r for the annual Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Museum Director Lecture on the CHQ Assembly Virtual Porch . The annual lecture series was established in honor of the late Leon Plevin , husband to artist Gloria Plevin and avid supporter of the visual arts at Chautauqua. Hailing from Houston, Oliver attended the University of Texas at A
Black Ownership In Atlanta’s Creative Economy
by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d
'A group of Black entrepreneurs come together to discuss their new creative space in Atlanta, GA, The HBUC.'
Let's Talk Bruh: The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power with Dr. Jared Ball
by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d
'On this episode, Let's Talk Bruh links up Dr. Jared Ball . Dr. Ball is a father and husband. After that, he is a Professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and is founder/curator of imixwhatilike.org , a multimedia hub of emancipatory journalism and revolutionary beat reporting. Ball is also author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power . Today we t
Black Lives Are Celebrated In Bisa Butler's Extraordinary, Technicolor Quilts
by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d
"I describe my artwork as a quilted photo album of a Black family. But it's the Black diaspora family," says Bisa Butler , standing in the exhibition hall and overlooking her work. She explains to NPR that some of the people depicted in her photo album are well known, others just ordinary folk often overlooked. No matter. All are celebrated. "These ordinary folk who may have been very poor are so
Art21 "Extended Play" | Wangechi Mutu: Between the Earth and the Sky
by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d
'From her Nairobi studio, artist Wangechi Mutu considers her relationship with the natural world and the ways in which it has influenced her variegated artistic practice. A self-described "city girl with a nature brain," Mutu recounts her upbringing in Kenya, memories of playing in her family’s garden, and attending an all-girls Catholic school. These experiences instilled a profound respect for
A Word … with Jason Johnson: Tuskegee’s Ghosts Haunt COVID Fight
by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d
'The COVID crisis ripped through the Black community, with Black people accounting for almost a quarter of the 600,000 deaths that America has had so far. And as the delta variant brings back crowded hospital wards and mask mandates, many health care leaders are struggling to minimize the pain for Black America. Dr. Reed Tuckson is one of those on the front lines of the fight. He’s a veteran phys
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Hailing Dr. Lonnie Smith, and the Magnificent Legacy of the Hammond B3 Organ
by Mark Anthony Neal / 6d
'The deep groove of the Hammond B3 organ, which first emerged in the mid-1950s, has long represented the sound of a soulful proletariat. Jazz organ combos married the sanctified cry of the Black church with the seductive call of the blues. Moving into the 1960s and early '70s, players like Jimmy Smith , Shirley Scott , Jack McDuff , Don Patterson and Charles Earland found commercial success, bols
Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon: Ashes To Ashes
by Mark Anthony Neal / 6d
'Great Grief host Nnenna Freelon calls on the wisdom of her friend Clarenda Stanley , owner of Green Heffa Farms, leading to new discoveries about the various ways grieving is like sowing and growing seeds.'
Books We Should've Read: Yabo featuring Alexis De Veaux
by Mark Anthony Neal / 6d
'In this episode of Books We Should've Read , Ashley is joined by by Alexis De Veaux, with author of teh award-winning Yabo. Jewelle Gomez writes of Yabo, "Echoing the work of Jean Toomer and Toni Morrison , Yabo speaks in a powerful and insistent cadence about things we may have forgotten: death, desire, magic and the drum beat of resilience.'
Enlightened with Lisa Borders: Renee Montgomery - Paving the Way: From Point Guard to Part Owner
by Mark Anthony Neal / 6d
' Renee Montgomery , the first WNBA player to co-own a WNBA team, comes to Enlightened with Lisa Borders to discuss everything from her decision to forgo the 2020 WBNA season, to 'controlling the controllables,' to her retirement in early 2021, to 'turning it up' both court side and in a corporate management role. We get into why she believes the lifestyle inherent to athletes can create more emp
How Actor Winston Duke Brought All of Himself to "Nine Days"
by Mark Anthony Neal / 6d
'Actor Winston Duke has had standout roles in major movies including Black Panther and Us , but this summer he’s starring in a much more intimate film called Nine Days . Written and directed by Edson Oda , the movie stars Duke as Will, a man tasked with determining which spirits can pass through an abstract realm and be born into the real world to live as people. Duke spoke with Melissa Harris-Pe
The Public Commons
by Mark Anthony Neal / 6d
'How can we create public places that feel welcoming and safe for everyone? This hour, TED speakers examine our physical and digital spaces—how they run, who they serve, and how to make them better. Guests include community organizer Shari Davis , researcher Eli Pariser , Wikipedia Library founder Jake Orlowitz , Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales , and artist Matthew Mazzotta .' -- TED Radio Hour
Exhausted, Drained, Overwhelmed: How Burnout Is Affecting Work And Life During The Pandemic
by Mark Anthony Neal / 6d
'For many Americans, the onset of the pandemic has led to increased burnout. Millions of Americans are experiencing burnout, says Paula Davis , founder of the Stress & Resilience Institute and the author of “Beat the Burnout: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience.” Davis says the simple formula behind burnout is “too many job demands and too few job resources.” Many employees als
