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Black Intimacy in R&B and Hip-Hop with Robert Patterson, Antonia Randolph, and Elliott Powell

"The session of PMBiP involves a conversation between Antonia Randolph and Robert J. Patterson about the representations of Black intimate life in R&B and hip-hop music during the Post-Civil Rights Era, with Elliott H. Powell serving as interlocutor. Patterson talks about his recent book Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality (Rutgers University Press, 2019) then Randolph reads from her book-in-progress, That’s My Heart: Queering Intimacy in Hip-Hop Culture. Powell questions both authors about overlaps and differences in their respective projects, with a lively audience discussion afterwards."

The New Conversation with Dr. Dwight A. McBride | Ep. 3 Jonathan Holloway

"Jonathan Holloway, a U.S. historian, took office as the 21st president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on July 1, 2020. He also serves as a University Professor and Distinguished Professor. In this series, Dr. Dwight A. McBride, President of The New School, converses with scholars, artists, activists, and a wide range of notable individuals to share their work, their experiences, and their views on a whole host of issues."

Cheap, Legal And Everywhere: How Food Companies Get Us 'Hooked' On Junk

"Reporter Michael Moss says processed foods can be as alluring in some ways as cocaine or cigarettes. His new book explains how companies keep us snacking by appealing to nostalgia and brain chemistry." -- Fresh Air

Why Having Diverse Government Scientists Is Key To Dealing With Climate Change

"Climate and health policies rely on scientific expertise. But the federal science workforce has been shaped by decades of political interference, underfunding and race and gender bias." -- All Things Considered

Bone Rooms: How Elite Schools and Museums Amassed Black and Native Human Remains Without Consent

"Revelations the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton hold the remains of a child killed by Philadelphia police in the 1985 MOVE bombing are the latest development in a conversation about demanding respectful treatment of African American remains in museum collections, especially those of the enslaved. The Penn Museum also apologized last week for holding more than 1,000 stolen skulls of enslaved people in its Morton Collection, and the president of Harvard University issued a letter in January acknowledging the 22,000 human remains in its collections included 15 from people of African descent who may have been enslaved in the United States, vowing review of the school’s ethics policies. “This is a really vast problem,” says historian Samuel Redman, author of Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, who also describes the repatriation of Native American remains after Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990. “There are individual instances like this that are horrific and we need to pay attention to, but it is a symptom of this much larger problem.” -- Democracy Now!

Left of Black S11 · E25 | Claudrena Harold on the Greats of Gospel

Who were the greats of post-Civil Rights era Gospel music and have they gotten their due for the major contributions they have made to Black music? What was the impact of such names as Rev. James Cleveland, Pastor Shirley Caesar, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, and many others? In this episode of Left of Black, host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Dr. Claudrena N. Harold, professor of African American and African Studies and History at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the author of When Sunday ComesGospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras, published by University of Illinois Press.

Merry Clayton's Inspiring Gift to the World

'The gospel, rock and soul singer, renowned as a backup artist for some of the world's leading musical acts, got some long-overdue public awareness from the 2013 documentary 20 Feet From Stardom. Now, years after losing both legs in a car accident, Merry Clayton has made a triumphant return to the recording studio for her new album, Beautiful Scars. CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Lee Cowan reports.'

Boston Review Heather McGhee Talks with Archon Fung

'Harvard Kennedy School professor Archon Fung talks with Heather McGhee about her new book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.'

Boston Review · Heather McGhee talks with Archon Fung | Boston Review

New forms of Sweetness: Race, Science, Social Risk and the Biopolitics of Sugar

'Anthropologist James Doucet-Battle on sugar, diabetes, racialized science and his book Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes from University of Minnesota Press.'

This is Hell! · New forms of sweetness: Race, science, social risk and the biopolitics of sugar.

Rickie Lee Jones' Memoir

'Two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones has been called “the premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" by The New Yorker. She joins All Of It to discuss her new memoir, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour.'