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How Former NBA Star Baron Davis is showing up for Black Entrepreneurs | Fast Company

'Baron Davis—NBA All-Star turned entrepreneur and business owner—is paying it forward to underrepresented and minority founders. Davis’s goal is to develop an entrepreneurial mindset for the next generation of leaders. This is Fast Company’s “The Work in Progress,” hosted by Chris Denson.'

How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong | Reveal Podcast

'American Public Media reporter Emily Hanford digs into a flawed theory that has shaped reading instruction  for decades. The theory is that children can learn to read without learning how to sound out words, because there are other strategies they can use to figure out what the words say. Strategies like “look at the picture” or “think of a word that makes sense.” This episode is a partnership with American Public Media’s Sold a Story podcast.'

Charles Gaines: Systems & Structures | Art21 "Extended Play”

'Investigating the production of knowledge and culture, artist Charles Gaines uses rule-based systems to create paintings, drawings, musical compositions, and sculptures. Culminating in the completion of Moving Chains (2022), a 100-foot-long public sculpture on Governors Island in New York City, this film traces the connections Gaines makes between our lived experiences and the systems that shape them.' -- Art21

GAME: An Intimate Talk with Grant Hill '94 Moderated by Mark Anthony Neal

'An intimate talk with Duke Alumni Grant Hill '94 about his life and journey from basketball to beyond, moderated by Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal. Sponsored by Duke Black Alumni and Duke Alumni Engagement and Development.'

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism | "They Put Everything On The Line For the Movement" – Zoharah Simmons, Michael Simmons and Dan Berger (Stayed on Freedom Oral History)

'Dan Berger’s new book Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey, brings into focus two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom.  Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons fell in love while organizing tenants and workers in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Their commitment to each other and to social change took them on a decades-long journey that traversed first the country and then the world. In centering their lives, historian Dan Berger shows how Black Power united the local and the global across organizations and generations.  In this part of our conversation, we talk about their childhoods, their early politicization, defying their families in order to get directly involved in perhaps the most dangerous work in the Civil Rights Movement and we begin to talk about the Black communities they joined in the Deep South to be a part of those transformative struggles against Jim Crow.'

The Black Studies Podcast | Radically Humanist Learning with Deborah Thomas and Kamari Maxine Clarke

'On this episode of the Black Studies Podcast, Deborah Thomas and Kamari Maxine Clarke join to discuss the case for letting Anthropology burn and what a radically humanist Anthropology might look like, Deborah A. Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an award-winning author of books such as Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, Exceptional Violence, and Modern Blackness. Kamari Maxine Clarke is a Distinguished Professor in Transnational Justice and Socio-legal Studies at the University of Toronto and an award-winning author who has published nine books and over 50 peer-refereed journal articles and book chapters. In 2021, she received a Guggenheim Prize for career excellence. In addition to her scholarly work, she has served as a technical advisor to the African Union legal counsel.'

New Books Network: Winston James – ‘Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik'

'In Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik (Columbia UP, 2022), Winston James offers a revelatory account of McKay’s political and intellectual trajectory from his upbringing in Jamaica through the early years of his literary career and radical activism. In 1912, McKay left Jamaica to study in the United States, never to return. James follows McKay’s time at the Tuskegee Institute and Kansas State University, as he discovered the harshness of American racism, and his move to Harlem, where he encountered the ferment of Black cultural and political movements and figures such as Hubert Harrison and Marcus Garvey. McKay left New York for London, where his commitment to revolutionary socialism deepened, culminating in his transformation from Fabian socialist to Bolshevik. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, James offers a rich and detailed chronicle of McKay’s life, political evolution, and the historical, political, and intellectual contexts that shaped him.'

Left of Black S13 · E13 | Sophia Chang on 'The Baddest Bitch in the Room'

In the face of ongoing calls to "be patient" during the Civil Rights Era, how did activists and artists use Black theater, and Black performance more broadly, as a form of dissidence to make change? Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr., a scholar of Performance Studies and Black Literature and an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, joins Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Dr. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss his new book, Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation (NYU Press, 2022).

Into America with Trymaine Lee – Street Disciples: The Concrete Jungle

'Hip-hop is turning 50 this year. So, for Black History Month, Into America is presenting Street Disciples: Politics, Power, and the Rise of Hip-Hop. Trymaine Lee is looking back on the political conditions and policies that have inspired half a century of hip-hop, and how over time, hip-hop began to shape America. On part one of Street Disciples, how the concrete jungle of New York in the 1970s led to the birth and spread of hip-hop. Trymaine is joined by: Kool DJ Red Alert, DJ Grandwizzard Theodore, historian Mark Anthony Neal, sociologist Tricia Rose, and journalist Davey D.'

Wayne Brady Shares Improv Skills For Life | Fast Company

 'Wayne Brady shares the secrets of his Emmy Award-winning success (and it starts with improvisation skills.)'