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May 12, 2012
Who Needs Feminism?
WUNC-91.5 | The State of Things with Frank Stasio Who Needs Feminism? A group of Duke University undergraduates decided to fulfill the requirements for a group project by asking their peers on campus, "Who needs feminism?" To their surprise, the world answered them. Their project’s Tumblr blog has received more than 80,000 visits from 144 countries and 11,000 people have "liked" their page on Facebook. The project would not have reached an international audience had it not been for social media. What are the possibilities and limitations that this new platform opens up for feminism? And now that they've gathered all of this momentum, what is next for them and the feminist movement? Host Frank Stasio is joined by Ashley Tsai and Catharine Kappauf, undergraduates at Duke; Rachel Seidman, adjunct lecturer at Duke and associate director of the Southern Oral History Program; Ranjana Khanna, Duke professor and director of the Women’s Studies department; and Lisa Levenstein, associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Listen
May 11, 2012
A Mother's Day Message from Sybrina Fulton
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May 10, 2012
Jay Smooth: "Marriage Equality and Symbiotic Evolution"
From IllDoctrine:
Honoring both the big things that President Obama did this week, and the big things LGBTQ activists, bloggers, etc did to help get him (and us) there. [image error]
Police Brutality Across the Color-Line: The Beating Death of Kelly Thomas
RTAmerica:
The brutal beating of Kelly Thomas has two Fullerton, California police officers potentially facing second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges. Thomas, a homeless schizophrenic man, was brutally beaten to death by officers Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli in July of 2011. Thomas died five days later after he was taken off life support and much of the evidence against the two officers is on video tape recorded by witnesses. Tim Cavanaugh, managing editor for Reason.Com, joins us to explain how video taping law enforcement is a must.[image error]
North Carolina Voters Approve Sweeping Amendment Banning Gay Marriage, Civil Unions
DemocracyNow.org
North Carolina voters have turned out in large numbers to pass a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman. While North Carolina law already bans same-sex marriage, the amendment means civil unions and potentially other types of domestic partnerships will no longer be recognized legally by the state. Some lawyers say the measure is vaguely worded and could impact the state's 150,000 straight couples who live together, but are unmarried. Others warn it may invalidate domestic-violence protections, undercut child custody arrangements and jeopardize hospital visiting rights. "If we look at the people who sponsored this amendment we see they have a track record not of unity, but of division," says William Robinson of the Coalition to Protect All North Carolina Families.
May 9, 2012
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow on the Colbert Report
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Civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander discusses her book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
May 8, 2012
From the Digital Crate: of (Black) Men and Song (ver. 1.0)
From the Digital Crate: of (Black) Men and Song (ver. 1.0) by Mark Anthony Neal | NewBlackMan
Listening to Andy Bey is like dreaming about what you’ve never been. And perhaps this is what fueled Bey in the first place—the opportunity to imagine in sound, in phrase, and in melody a world yet to be inhabited by those singers male and black. It is all too easy to suggest that a vocalist like Bey might have been listening to Bobby Blue Bland, Solomon Burke or even Ira Tucker—as they all were—but there’s something about Bey’s delivery that suggest something more original and dare I say substantive—at least on the level of style. Bey is one of a kind—something you could only conjure in a dream, really.***I often think about this notion of originality. A colleague of mine, Richard J. Powell, an art historian of some stature, has suggested that no artist is influenced (inspired maybe?), but it’s all about an active appropriation of something else(s) in route to something of their own. Ok, so Sinatra had Billie Holiday in his head and Marvin Gaye had Sinatra in his (“…in the wee small hours of the morning…) and Ronald Isley and Bobby Womack—peers and contemporaries of Sam Cooke—no doubt recalibrated because of Cooke (like Ms. Dinah did for Aretha and Nancy Wilson), though Cooke himself found the road to Damascus trying to sound like R. H. Harris? And nobody would say that any of these folk weren’t American originals, so that’s not my point.
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Mark Anthony Neal is the author of five books including the forthcoming Looking For Leroy: (Il)Legible Black Masculinities (New York University Press). He is professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African & African-American Studies at Duke University and the host of the Weekly Webcast Left of Black. Follow him on Twitter @NewBlackMan.
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