Mark Anthony Neal's Blog, page 578

Jeff Chang’s Notes on Race & Resegregation

'Jeff Chang has chronicled contemporary American experiences of arts, culture, race, and politics in books like Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, his history of hip-hop, and Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America. As director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford and the co-founder of CultureSt/ke and ColorLines, he is at the forefront of these issues as they affect our arts and culture. In his newest book, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation (out 9/13), Chang examines recent tragedies and protests and “some of the ways we have slid back toward segregation…in our neighborhoods and schools, our colleges and universities, even in the culture.” Chang is in conversation with Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart.'

"Obama's Blackness is Not Transferable" -- Glen Ford on The Democratic Party Fatigue of Black Lives Matter Millennials

'Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford says the Democrat’s attempts to get out the Black vote for Hillary Clinton this election might not work, noting that Barack Obama's "blackness is not transferable." -- The Real News

Tiny Desk Concert: Corinne Bailey Rae

'It's been six years since Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae released her second album, The Sea, so this Tiny Desk concert feels like both a re-introduction and a welcome back. The Sea dealt with the sudden death of her husband, saxophonist Jason Rae; since then, she's married producer Steve Brown, and together they've made a new record called The Heart Speaks In Whispers. That album has this English singer recording with the likes of Esperanza Spalding , Marcus Miller and members of the band KING .'

Former Black Panther Political Prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad on His Wrongful Conviction

'Dhoruba Bin Wahad spoke exclusively to VladTV about being wrongly charged with assault in the first degree for the drive-by shooting of two police officers in 1971. Three trials later, Dhoruba was sentenced to 25 years to life for the crime, which he knew he didn't commit. He spent 19 years in jail before he was acquitted when it was revealed that counterintelligence files from the FBI were found on Bin Wahad and the Black Panthers, proving that the agency was deliberately trying to take down the Panthers. The prosecution in the case withheld this information during Dhoruba's case so that they could put him away.' -- VladTV 

Donald Glover Explores A 'Surreal' ATL

'Donald Glover's new TV show Atlanta has been described as having "dreamy and weird" moments, of mixing "hyper-realism ... with brief moments of surrealism ... all which serve to disorient." The show has laughs that are "prickly and strange, laced with menace and sadness, if also a real sense of place. Glover says he wanted to "give people a feeling that they can't really siphon or make into something else.' -- NPR

Historian Martha Biondi on the Radicalism of Black Lives Matter

'Historian Martha Biondi explores the insistent radicalism of Black Lives Matter - from the ways the youth-lead movement challenges American assumptions about power and equality, to the post-civil rights resurgence of creative, organized protest - and places BLM in the global context of social movements exposing and confronting the failures of representative democracy and neoliberal economics. Biondi wrote the feature "The Radicalism of Black Lives Matter" for In These Times.' -- This is Hell! Radio

Historian Martha Biondo on the Radicalism of Black Lives Matter

'Historian Martha Biondi explores the insistent radicalism of Black Lives Matter - from the ways the youth-lead movement challenges American assumptions about power and equality, to the post-civil rights resurgence of creative, organized protest - and places BLM in the global context of social movements exposing and confronting the failures of representative democracy and neoliberal economics. Biondi wrote the feature "The Radicalism of Black Lives Matter" for In These Times.' -- This is Hell! Radio

#TheRemix: James Braxton Peterson Talks New Graphic Book 'Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners'

'On this minisode of #TheRemix host James Braxton Peterson discusses two new books:  Hip Hop Headphones: A Scholar's Critical Playlist and Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners, illustrated by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson of the Black Kirby collaborative.' 

Locked Down: The Link Between Disability and Prisons

'Right now in the United States, there are more people with psychiatric disabilities in jail or prison than there are in psych hospitals, Writer and filmmaker Cheryl Green explores that reality.' -- Bitch Media

#ProfessionalBlackGirl -- Episode 2: Imani & Nazahah

'Dr. Yaba Blay's daughter Imani and her daughter, Nazahah Sanaa--and the joys of raising #ProfessionalBlackGirls.'