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Patients Cared For By Female Doctors Fare Better Than Those Treated By Men

'If male doctors were as good as their female counterparts at caring for older people in the hospital, about 32,000 fewer patients a year would die. What do female doctors do better than men?' -- +NPR  

Why So Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated

'A new report published by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law called,  “Unnecessarily Incarcerated,” estimates that America could release 39% of its total prison population with little to no risk to public safety. Lauren-Brooke Eisen, the Brennan Center for Justice’s top researcher, explains that their research team spent three years analyzing criminal codes, convictions, and sentences. They determined 25% of prisoners would be better served by alternatives to incarceration, and  that others have served sufficiently long sentences and could be released.' -- +The Leonard Lopate Show from WNYC 

This is Hell!: Don't Believe the Russia Hype: Who Profits from the New Red Scare?

'Journalist Andrew Cockburn examines the recent hype around Russia as existential threat to world security and American democracy, and finds dubious intelligence and a servile media pushing conflict in service of a failed political campaign in need of a scapegoat, and a bloated military in need of a target to justify its budget. Cockburn wrote the cover story "The New Red Scare" in the December issue of Harper's .' -- This is Hell!  

#TheRemix: Authoritarianism + Kleptocracy + Russian Interference Feared in Trump Presidency

Damon Winter/The New York Times'Sarah Kendzior was writing pieces, tweeting and discussing the potential dangers of a Trump presidency long before the election. On this episode of The Remix, host James Peterson talks to Kendzior about how Trump's business interests, combined with influences from Russia could pose grave dangers for American democracy. Kendzior is the author of The View From Flyover Country, a collection of essays which was published in 2015.' 

#BackChannel: The Best of Blackness in 2016

#BackChannel: The Best of Blackness in 2016
As the year comes to a close, #BackChannel contributors Natalie Bullock Brown, professor of film and broadcast media at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, and Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African & African American Studies and English at Duke University, reflect on standout cultural productions and some of their favorites from 2016 with WUNC host Frank Stasio. 

Visuals + Music -- "Conversation" (Formation Remix) by B.Slade™

"now gospel sucks / because ensembles snatched the choir robes / but if I dress like Prince & Michael I’m a homo" -- B.Slade™


Writing – Khalif Brown, Jordan Frost, Ashton Hogan, Michael Williams II, Beyoncé
@flirtycurtis creative director @rorovondero production/bts @leomoctezuma choreographer @naoepix cinematographer @cheverlyhillz face @louboutinworld boots @forever21 fauxfur & cream hat #evisushoes wool hightop sneakers #conversation outfit by @mrfashiongigs for @rocrio.designs grey skinny jeans by @Zara #ConversationMusicVideo EDITED BY B.Slade and Damon Darrell

The History of Hip-Hop (ver. 7.0) with 9th Wonder + Mark Anthony Neal: The Book List

The History of Hip-Hop (ver. 7.0) w/ 9th Wonder + Mark Anthony Neal
Duke University | Spring 2017
White Lecture Hall | Duke East Campus
Wednesdays at 6:15 (beginning January 18, 2017)

The Book List
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop -- by Dan Charnas

No Half Steppin': An Oral and Pictorial History of New York City Club the Latin Quarter and the Birth of Hip-Hop's Golden Era -- by Claude “Paradise” Gray + Giuseppe “u.net” Pipitone

Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak:  
Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South -- Bettina Love


Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States -- Su'ad Abdul Khabeer


That’s the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader -- ed. Murray Forman + Mark Anthony Neal


The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture:
Beneath the Surface -- James Braxton Peterson


Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists -- Sacha Jenkins + Elliot Wilson et al

Slow Fade to Black: Explorations in the Cinematic with Shola Lynch + Lisa Cortés

'Lisa Cortés and Shola Lynch consider issues of identity and representation in cinema during a conversation moderated by artist Carrie Mae Weems.' -- +Guggenheim Museum 

The Aspen Institute: Poet Clint Smith on Art + Activism + Education

'A Washington Ideas Roundtable with poet and educator Clint Smith on his recent collection of poems: Counting Descent. Moderator: Aspen Institute Arts Program Director Damian Woetzel.' -- +The Aspen Institute 

Alvin Ailey and the Importance of the Arts

'Robert Battle, the artistic director of Alvin Ailey’s namesake dance company, speaks about the historical role of the arts and finding our common humanity.' -- +The New Yorker