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Spoken Word: Staceyann Chin performs "Islamophobia"

'From +WNYC  11th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the Apollo Theater, "Where Do We Go From Here?: MLK and the Future of Inclusion"-- Staceyann Chin performs the second of three spoken word pieces.' 

Talib Kweli & 9th Wonder: In Conversation

'GRAMMY-winning producer, DJ, and Duke professor 9th Wonder leads this discussion with acclaimed Brooklyn-based hip-hop artist Talib Kweli, which explorex Kweli’s career and wide-ranging artistic collaborations.  Presented as part of Duke Performances’ Hip-Hop Initiative, made possible, in part, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.' -- +Scholars and Publics  

Intersectionality & the Black Lives Matter Movement: Black Lives Matter in Prison

'The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 2017 symposium addresses the importance of considering intersecting gender, racial, and sexual identities while discussing the Black Lives Matter movement. The second panel of the four-day series is entitled Black Lives Matter in Prison. Panelists include Professor James Coleman of Duke Law School and Umar Muhammad of the Southern Coalition for Justice. The moderator is Duke Law Professor Theresa Newman.' -- +Duke University School of Law  

How Art Can Transform Life for Inmates

' Brian Fisher , former commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections, joins us to discuss the documentary, Dramatic Escape, which follows the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) theatrical production of “A Few Good Men” at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. He's joined by Clarence Maclin and Johnny Hincapie , two RTA alums who are featured in the documentary. The film follows prisoners from audition through curtain call, and gives an inside look at the transformative art workshops and productions that teach critical skills for life inside and outside of prison.' 

Getting into 'Get Out': A Conversation with Jordan Peele

'Jordan Peele’s new film Get Out is a genre-bending, groundbreaking thriller— it’s also a sharp critique of racism in America. Kurt speaks with Peele about his directorial debut, race in the film industry, and the parallels between comedy and horror. Plus, University of Michigan media studies professor Robin Means Coleman helps put Get Out in the context of black horror film history. She says that Peele is smart to use the genre to talk about race because there are no boundaries in horror. “It works to have conversations about things in our social and political world that we wouldn't typically have”.' -- +WNYC  

Sound Opinions: The Gene Chandler Interview

'Sound Opinions hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot interview Chicago Soul singer Gene Chandler, who is best known as the“Duke of Earl.” From 1962 to 1970, Chandler recorded nineteen top forty hits, but he'll forever be known as the "Duke of Earl." As a young artist, he performed across the country, including the Jim Crow South, later transitioning from performer to award-winning producer. Gene Chandler joins Greg and Jim for a conversation.'  

Left of Black S7:E17: The 2BeatHIV Project and Crowdsourcing HIV Cure Research

Left of Black S7:E17: The 2BeatHIV Project and Crowdsourcing HIV Cure Research
On this episode of Left of Black,  Dr. Allison Mathews (@_AllisonMathews) joins host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal in the Left of Black studio. Dr. Mathews is the founder and CEO of Community Expert Solutions, LLC, which uses crowdsourcing to identify and develop community-based ideas into revenue generating projects. She is the director of the 2BeatHIV project, which engages community about HIV cure research.  Dr. Mathews is also a researcher at UNC Chapel Hill in the Department of Social Medicine and the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease.
Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University and in conjunction with the Center for Arts + Digital Culture + Entrepreneurship (CADCE) and the Duke Council on Race + Ethnicity
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'Sartorial Black Gender and Fashion in the Diaspora' – with Tanisha Ford + Monica L. Miller

The Intersections Working Group at Princeton University presented a panel discussion on Gender and Fashion in the Diaspora featuring Tanisha C. Ford (University of Delaware) and Monica L. Miller (Barnard). 

'Made in America: The History of Black Gospel Music' -- Lecture by Guthrie Ramsey, Jr.

Guthrie Ramsey, Jr. , the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, presents the lecture "Made in America: The History of Black Gospel Music." -- +Princeton AAS  

Dog Whistle Politics: Race + Policy & Economic Inequality -- Lecture by Ian Haney López

'UC Berkeley professor Ian Haney López offers a historical perspective on the successful use of coded racism, or political dog whistles, in the 2016 presidential campaign. Political dog whistling is the use of coded, racially charged language to sway white voters by triggering fear and resentment toward minorities. Ian Haney López is the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law and is one of the nation's leading thinkers on racism's evolution in the United States since the civil rights era.' -- +DukeSanfordSchool