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#BackChannel: Chappelle Punches Down, Billy Porter & Jharrel Jerome Stand Tall and A Black Lady Sketch Show Takes Risk

On this episode of #BlackChannel featuring State of Things contributors Natalie Bullock Brown and Mark Anthony Neal, the duo discuss the Emmy Award winning performances of Billy Porter (Pose) and Jharrel Jerome (When They See Us), as well as the marginalization of Black women in the television industry.  Bullock Brown and Neal also highlight new recordings from Missy Elliot (Iconography) and Rapsody (Eve), as well as the HBO series A Black Lady Sketch Show and Dave Chappelle's controversial Netflix special Sticks and Stones. Hosted by WUNC's Frank Stasio.

Kelly Lytle Hernández, Historian | 2019 MacArthur Fellow

'Kelly Lytle Hernández is a historian. She is challenging long-held beliefs about the origins, ideology, and evolution of incarceration and immigrant detention practices in the United States.' -- macfound

Saidiya Hartman, Literary Scholar and Cultural Historian | 2019 MacArthur Fellow

'Saidiya Hartman is a literary scholar and cultural historian. She is tracing the afterlife of slavery in modern American life and rescuing from oblivion stories of sparsely documented lives that have been systematically excluded from historical archives.' -- macfound  
 

Ta-Nehisi Coates On Magic, Memory And The Underground Railroad

'"Magic is often very much a part" of the story of enslavement and escape, Ta-Nehisi Coates says. His new novel, The Water Dancer, imagines a world in which teleportation helps power the Underground Railroad.' -- Fresh Air

Order, Breakdown and the Dynamics of Protest Violence

'Sociologist Anne Nassauer examines the root causes of violence between protesters and police, and explains why breakdowns in routine, communication and territory - not individual motivations - are key factors in peaceful mass demonstrations breaking down into violent situations. Nassauer wrote the book Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and other Surprising Outcomes for Oxford University Press.' -- This is Hell! 

Left of Black S10:E1: Sister President Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole

[image error] Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in the studio by Dr. Johnetta B. Cole, the former director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; President Emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College; Professor Emerita of Emory College where she retired as the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies; and currently the President of the National Council of Negro Women. Her published works include All American Women: Lines that Divide, Ties that Bind (Free Press, 1986); Dream the Boldest Dreams: And Other Lessons of Life (Longstreet Press, 1997) and Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities (One World Press, 2003), which she wrote with Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall.

Norman Lear Looks Back at a Lifetime of TV

'Norman Lear, one of TV's most prolific producers, just signed a renewed deal with Sony that will last through his 100th birthday. Some of the shows that Lear has helped produce include One Day at a Time, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son and Maude.' -- Variety

Black America: Race in America with Martha S. Jones

'In an era where our President has stated that he is "seriously" considering ending U.S birthright citizenship,  historian Martha S. Jones explains in her book Birthright Citizens, how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans.' --cunytv75 

“Flint Water Meets the Mighty Hudson” by Pope.L

'On a summer night in August, Pope.L and team surreptitiously poured water from Flint, Michigan into the Hudson River in advance of his  exhibition at the Whitney, Pope.L: Choir. The performance continues the artist’s investigation of water, and is related to his “Flint Water Project” (2017) in which he bottled water from Flint and turned the bottles into a series of art objects, calling attention to the contaminated water in the city and the need for safe water everywhere.' --Whitney Museum of American Art

Visual Activist Zanele Muholi on Photographing Members of the LGBTI Community in South Africa

'Visual activist Zanele Muholi explains the impetus behind creating what they call "mobile studios" to photograph members of the LGBTI community in South Africa. Freed from the limitations of a single studio space, Muholi travels to the homes and community spaces shared by the people depicted in their photographs. As a way to create work in which the participants feel most comfortable, these mobile studios allow Muholi to empower those around them, particularly the group of trans women featured in the "Brave Beauties" series.' --Art21