Mark Anthony Neal's Blog, page 174

'Summer Of Soul': Abbey Lincoln And Max Roach

Jazz artists Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach were featured in the recent documentary Summer of Soul. Fresh Air shares archival interviews with both from the late 1980s.

'I Won't Feel Safe Until We're All Safe': How An Epidemiologist Is Coping With A 'Moving Target'

'Dr. Whitney Robinson, an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology/UNC Gillings School of Public Health, speaks to WUNC's Tested about how she is personally and professional navigating the pandemic.'

Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon: A Stitch In Time

'During their 40-year marriage, Nnenna Freelon and her late husband Phil wrote countless letters to one another. In the last episode of the season, Freelon longs to continue that tradition and, against all odds, she finally finds a way.'

Enlightened with Lisa Borders: Stephen Satterfield - Nopa and Netflix: Recipes for Reclaiming Culture and Identity

'Food media entrepreneur, Stephen Satterfield, joins Enlightened with Lisa Borders to serve up a small batch sermon on the power of conviction and cuisine. The founder of Whetstone and host of Netflix's High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America talks champagne, terroir, and wine as a means of socioeconomic development. We examine how and why he's come full circle on the distinctions that enable food to deepen human connection — and we explore the history of agricultural acumen and its role in systemic inequality. This is a mouthwatering and mind-blowing conversation! It's also a soul-stirring dive into the future of food — and a recipe for combining epicurean taste and empathy for a more compassionate world.'

'All The Streets Are Silent': A New Documentary on 90s Hip Hop and Skateboarding

'Filmmaker Jeremy Elken joins All Of It to discuss his new documentary, "All The Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997),” which takes a deep dive into archival footage from NYC's underground hip hop scene in the 1990s, and its symbiotic relationship with underground skate culture.'

Black Health: Medical Racism, Resistance and Wellness (CBFS)

'The pandemic has laid bare longstanding racial inequities in health care. Join the Schomburg Center for the opening panel of the 2021-2022 CBFS season on Black Health - Medical Racism, Resistance and Wellness. The conversation brings together four scholars whose work examines the long history of medical racism and unequal access to quality medical care including mental health care; the racialized political economy of public hospitals; and the extensive struggles Black people have waged to challenge health care inequalities and build strategies for their own wellness: Deirdre Cooper Owens, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology; Martin Summers, Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation's Capital; Stephanie Evans, Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace; and George Aumoithe, a scholar of U.S. healthcare and the political economy of New York hospitals.'

Opinion: Remembering The Life And Spirit Of Elijah McClain

'Weekend Edition Saturday's Scott Simon remarks on indictments in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. He had committed no crime, but police used a carotid hold on him and paramedics injected him with a sedative.'

'Candyman' Composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Sings, Scares The Body Electric

'The sound artist and composer, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, took a deeply unique, and wonderfully successful, approach to the composing of his score for the new Jordan Peele-written horror reboot.'

Descendants Of The Enslaved Sheltered From Ida In A Historic Plantation's Big House

'When the Banner family sought shelter from Hurricane Ida that was roaring across the Gulf, they looked for the sturdiest building in the tiny community of Wallace, La, where they live. So they decided to ride out the storm in the Big House on the Whitney Plantation. The Banners are Black. They've lived for generations on this rich, alluvial soil beside the Mississippi River, about 50 miles upriver from New Orleans. And they tell Weekend Edition Sunday that their enslaved ancestors helped to construct this Creole plantation house 230 years ago for a German planter and slave owner named Jean Jacques Haydel.'

Before Roe v Wade there was the Jane Collective

'The Takeaway takes a look at how activists worked to provide abortions prior to Roe v. Wade with a look at the Jane Collective, a group that operated out of Chicago and performed thousands of abortions between 1969 and 1973. Host Melissa Harris-Perry speaks with her mother about her work in Washington between 1969-1971 and Laura Kaplan, author of a book about the collective, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service.'