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'Your Obedience Will Protect You' and Other Myths of Black Girlhood"--A Lecture by Aimee Meredith Cox

'IRAAS Conversations Lecture with Aimee Meredith Cox: ' Your Obedience Will Protect You' and Other Myths of Black Girlhood." Aimee Meredith Cox, PhD is a cultural anthropologist and movement artist who teaches in the African and African American Studies department at Fordham University.  She is the author of Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015) and the forthcoming edited volume, Gender & Space (MacMillan)' -- +IraasColumbia 

Photographer Dawoud Bey Discusses Impact of 'Harlem on My Mind' Exhibit

Dawoud BeyOn this episode of Black Art In America News Dawoud Bey talks about the Harlem on my Mind Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in 1969.

Poet Dwayne Betts Shares Playlist that Inspired 'Bastards of The Reagan Era'

'In the latest installment of q's playlist series, Dwayne Betts walks host Shad through the music that inspired his new book of poetry: Bastards of The Reagan Era.  Betts' work explores the mass incarceration of black men during the Reagan era — including his own jail sentence. He explains how he went from good student to inmate to community leader to Yale law student, and the personal soundtrack that played in the backdrop.' -- +q on cbc 

Beth E. Richie and bell hooks Weigh Issues of Violence and Reconciliation

Beth E. Richie, adviser to the NFL on domestic violence and Professor of Criminal Justice and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, joined social justice scholar bell hooks in the conversation "Ending Violence: How we Change," during hooks’ week-long residency at St Norbert College.

The S Train: Manhattan's Musical Shuttle

'The S train, New York City’s shortest and oldest subway line, is prime real estate for buskers.'-- +The New Yorker 

"No One Remembers My Name" -- Stephanie Mills from 'For the First Time' (1975)

A Burt Bacharach original from Stephanie Mills' second studio album For the First Time (1975) which was realeased on the Motown label.

 

The Global African: Danny Glover & James Early on the Elections in Venezuela

' The Global African Host Bill Fletcher talks with Danny Glover, actor, activist and CEO of Louverture Films, and James Early, scholar at the Institute of Policy Studies, about the recent elections in Venezuela and what it means for the country going forward.' -- +The Global African 

West Baltimore on the Freddie Gray Case Mistrial

'TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with residents of West Baltimore about the mistrial in the case of officer William Porter.' -- +TheRealNews  

Spike Lee Talks Chi-Raq with Charlie Rose

Director Spike Lee talks with Charlie Rose about his latest film Chi-Raq.

'The Third Space' with Guest DAGHE+DIGITAL [Episode 2]

'On this episode of The Third Space host Faiza Farah talks with DAGHE+DIGITAL , creative director of the MindStyle Company based out of Oakland, CA about entrepreneurship, following your passion and music.'-- +Blavity