Mark Anthony Neal's Blog, page 16

Lifting Up Entrepreneurs To Close The Racial Wealth Gap: A Conversation With Ashli Sims

'Jabari Young sits with Ashli Sims, Managing Director of Build In Tulsa, about how properly supported entrepreneurship can help close the racial wealth gap.'

How Black People Can Cope with the Trauma of Witnessing Repeated Death and Violence Against Them

'NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia about coping with the trauma Black people may feel after horrific events like the killing of Tyre Nichols.'

'Decent People' is a Murder Mystery Grappling with Race in the Segregated South

'In a small North Carolina town in 1976, three siblings are shot to death. That's the mystery at the center of De'Shawn Charles Winslow's new book, Decent People – and it's one the segregated town's white police officers aren't paying much attention to. In today's episode, Winslow tells NPR's Scott Simon about the heroine who takes it upon herself to solve the case, and why the author feels a need to paint a nuanced portrait of even the antagonists in his books.'

The Culture Corner: How Curtis Mayfield left an indelible mark on Chicago

'For a special Chicago edition of the Culture Corner, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison takes you through Curtis Mayfield's career. You might know Mayfield as a solo artist and a member of The Impressions, but he also spent time moonlighting as a producer and songwriter for others.'

Erroll Garner Uncovered with Robin D.G. Kelley: Cécile McLorin Salvant / Gemini

'Three-time GRAMMY® Award winning singer and multi-disciplinary artist Cécile McLorin Salvant joins Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley to listen to Erroll Garner’s 1972 album Gemini. They explore Salvant’s deep relationship to Garner’s song "Misty" and her own path to becoming multi-disciplinary artist. Salvant shares her insights into Garner’s visual art practice and talks about her essay on the topic for his centennial boxed set, Liberation In Swing.'

Speaking Out of Place | We Need a Culture of Care: A Conversation with author, journalist, essayist and critic Liza Featherstone

'Liza Featherstone joins host David Liu-Palumbo on this episode of Speaking Out of Place. Featherstone  is a columnist at Jacobin and The New Republic, as well as a contributing writer at The Nation. In this podcast, Featherstone explains the structural challenges Democrats must overcome in order to meet the needs of ordinary people who are hurting—we discuss issues of crime, homelessness, childcare, and labor, taking Biden to task for folding on sick pay for rail workers, and seeing what positives can be derived from things like the Inflation Reduction Act and the surge in progressive young voters. Featherstone is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation, published by O/R Books in 2018, as well as Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books, 2004).'

Caroline Wanga | The Blackprint with Detavio Samuels

'For this episode of The Blackprint, host and REVOLT CEO Detavio Samuels welcomes Caroline Wanga for a conversation about ESSENCE, her belief that it's alright to be powered by anger and defiance sometimes, tackling imposter syndrome, and more.'

The Black Studies Podcast | Black Popular Culture with Lauren McLeod Cramer and Nataleah Hunter-Young

'On this episode of The Black Studies Podcast hosts Daniel McNeil, Sally El Sayed, Alador Bereketab are joined by Lauren McLeod Cramer and Nataleah Hunter-Young for a thoughtful, playful and generous conversation about Black popular culture, mentorship, and much more! Lauren McLeod Cramer is an Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Lauren is also a founding member of liquid blackness, a research project on blackness and aesthetics and the co-Editor of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies. Her work focuses on the aesthetics of blackness and popular culture, and she is currently writing a book on hip-hop visual culture and black spatial practice. Nataleah Hunter-Young is a writer, film curator, and Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Black Studies at Queen’s University. She is also a PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University and an international programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Her doctoral research considers the social and cultural impacts of social media videos documenting anti-Black police brutality through the discursive interpretations of three Black visual artists in Canada, the USA, and South Africa.'

New Books Network: Naa Oyo A. Kwate – ‘White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation'

'In White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation (U Minnesota Press, 2023), Naa Oyo A. Kwate traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long history of racist exclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban Black communities. Fast food has historically been tied to the country's self-image as the land of opportunity and is marketed as one of life's simple pleasures, but a more insidious history lies at the industry's core. White Burgers, Black Cash investigates the complex trajectory of restaurant locations from a decided commitment to Whiteness to the disproportionate densities that characterize Black communities today. Kwate expansively charts fast food's racial and spatial transformation and centers the cities of Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C., in a national examination of the biggest brands of today, including White Castle, KFC, Burger King, McDonald's, and more. Deeply researched, grippingly told, and brimming with surprising details, White Burgers, Black Cash reveals the inequalities embedded in the closest thing Americans have to a national meal.'

Creative Control | How Black creators are navigating Black History Month

'Black History Month is a time meant to celebrate Black culture, but as we’ve seen year after year, it’s also a time for racist trolls, tone-deaf brand campaigns, and corporate platitudes that amount to little change if any at all. Creative Control host KC Ifeanyi explores how Black creators are handling it all. Hear how Tyra Blizzard (@tblizzy), Garrison Hayes (@garrisonhayes), and Millana Snow (@millanasnow) are navigating February in 2023.'