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ReelBlack: Ava DuVernay on Sundance + the Last Good Book She Has Read

'+reelblack caught up with filmmaker Ava DuVernay at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival where she told us about her current project (Queen Sugar) and shared with us the last good book she's read.'

Left of Black S6:E15: Squatting for Freedom + #FeesMustFall in South Africa

Left of Black S6:E15:  Squatting for Freedom + #FeesMustFall in South Africa 
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in studio by Anne-Maria Makhulu (@DrMackMack), Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African + African-American Studies at Duke University, and the author of Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics and the Struggle for Home (Duke University Press, 2015). 
Professor Makhulu discusses the politics of squatting (the desire of poor South African to create home without access to land), the recent #FeesMustFall protest among South African college students and growing-up in the shadows of the Anti-Apartheid Movement with her father Rev. Walter Paul Khotso Makhulu, emeritus archbishop of the province of Central Africa for the Anglican Church.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).
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Black Filmmakers Stanley Nelson + Dawn Porter Discuss #SundanceNotSoWhite

'A growing number of actors and filmmakers are pushing for a boycott of the Oscars after no actors of color were nominated for a second year in a row.We discuss the boycott calls with two African-American filmmakers: Stanley Nelson, whose latest film is The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" and Dawn Porter, director of Trapped, which just had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. "This reminds me of when baseball was segregated—the Negro Leagues," Porter says. "Does anyone really think that all of the talent that was in the sport was being recognized?" -- +Democracy Now! 

Florida State University Will Pay Jameis Winston's Rape Accuser Nearly $1M

'Florida State University has settled a lawsuit filed by Erica Kinsman, the woman who accused Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston of rape back in 2012. According to a statement from her attorneys as reported by USA Today, the university agreed to pay Kinsman $950,000 and make a five-year commitment to awareness, prevention, and training programs.' -- +Complex 

North Carolina Voter ID Measure Goes on Trial

'The Department of Justice and civil rights groups contend that North Carolina deliberately sought to suppress voters.' -- +Al Jazeera America News 

Eddie S. Glaude Talks 'Democracy in Black' at Politics + Prose

'Princeton Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. discusses his book Democracy in Black and takes questions from the audience. Live at Politics & Prose is a co-production of Slate and Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.'

More African-Americans Are Learning Their Roots With Genetic Testing: A Conversation with Alondra Nelson

'Author and Columbia sociology professor Alondra Nelson's new book The Social Life Of DNA looks at the interest in genetic ancestry tracing from the African-American community. In an interview with NPR's Michel Martin, Nelson considers how this technology is changing the way many African-Americans see themselves and their place in the American story.'  

BlackademicsTV: The Marginalization of Haitian Migrants in the Bahamas

Dr. Bertin M. Louis analyzes the systematic marginalization of Haitian migrants in the Bahamas; Dr. Kevin Michael Foster describes Blackademics TV and its place within the legacy of Black Studies. 

First Listen: Saul Williams--MartyrLoserKing

'Singer/poet/actor/activist's Saul Williams' newest opus, MartyrLoserKing  is another slice of genre-agnostic, cultural agitprop inspired by a fictional miner-turned-hacker in the African nation of Burundi.' -- +NPR Music 

Teaching Kids About Slavery: Picture Books Struggle With The Same Task as Adults

'Experts say picture books that whitewash the history of slavery are just a symptom of an adult society. How can we explain it to kids, they argue, if we can't talk about it ourselves?' -- +NPR