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Evoking the Mulatto: White Baby Doll [Episode Two]

'Created by Lindsay C. Harris, Evoking the Mulatto is a transmedia project exploring black mixed identity in the 21st century through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States.' -- +NBPC  

ReelBlack: Dick Gregory on the 'Real' Selma + Bob Marley + Fearlessness

'Comedian/Activist/ Author Dick Gregory shares stories from the front lines of Selma, working with Bob Marley, the change that has happened since Obama was elected and the power one has one one is unafraid to die in this installment of Reelblack's Video Podcast Series.' 

Navigating #BlackLivesMatter From the Black Middle Class

On this episode of Left of Black on The Root host Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Professor Candice M. Jenkins to talk about her new work on the Black Middle Class. Jenkins is the author of  Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2007) and is an Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Black is Global Presents talkin' BLACK(ness) | Page May | Episode One

Black is Global Presents talkin’ BLACK(ness) is a new series of short films that explore the global Black experience. Episode One features community organizer Page May . Created | Shot | Edited by Kedar Coleman . |Music: Time Table | Album: Freelance | Artist: Zo! 

The Global African: Reparations in the Caribbean?

'Did UK Prime Minister David Cameron inadvertently give life to the # Reparations movement in the Caribbean? We also talk to the leader of a new project cutting down on energy consumption and empowering local women in Tanzania.' -- +The Global African 

 

Left of Black S6:E8: Picturing Freedom + Citizenship in 19th Century Black Visual Culture

Left of Black S6:E8:  Picturing Freedom + Citizenship in 19th Century Black Visual Culture
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in studio by  Jasmine Nichole Cobb (@jasminecobbphd),  Assistant Professor of Art, Arts History and Visual Studies + African & African American Studies at Duke University.
Cobb discusses  her new book Picture Freedom Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century (NYU Press) where she “explores the earliest illustrations of free Blacks and reveals the complicated route through visual culture toward a vision of African American citizenship. Picture Freedom reveals how these depictions contributed to public understandings of nationhood, among both domestic eyes and the larger Atlantic world.’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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#FlashBlackFriday: "Down with the King" (1993) -- Run-D.M.C.

The last great song by Run-D.M.C., and probably their most significant since 1989's "Pause", "Down with The King" was produced by Pete Rock with a vocal cameo by CL Smooth. The Marcus Raboy (Friday After Next) directed visual, which literally re-positioned the group and by extension Hip-Hop back to the underground, also featured a who's who of contemporary artists from that period, including Eric Eazy-E Wright.

Walking While Black: College Dean Accuses Texas Police Of Racism

Dorothy Bland, Dean of the University of North Texas School of Journalism, claims she was racially profiled by police who confronted her while walking in her neighborhood. I fully understand Professor Bland's response, as I don't walk in my own neighborhood without my phone or Duke University ID in case of the inevitability of being stopped by an officer, likely alerted to my presence by one of my concerned "neighbors." --MAN via +AJ+   

Robert R. Wilson Lecture--Historian Thavolia Glymph on Black Refugee Camps in the Post-Civil War Era

'During the Civil War the U.S. confronted a growing population of refugees and a humanitarian crisis. The refugees of the Civil War were predominantly slaves - and increasingly women and children - who fled slavery hoping to get to Union military lines in the South. By the end of the Civil War, tens of thousands had passed through, and many died in, refugee camps. In today's language, they constituted an internally displaced population and simultaneously, a stateless people. Under the rules of war promulgated by the federal government in 1863 - "Instructions for the Government of Aries of the United States in the Field, General Order No 100" - they were not only "made free by the law of war" but came "under the shield of the law of nations." 
In her lecture, Thavolia Glymph, the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History, looks at the forces that led to the establishment of refugee camps during the Civil War and places the history of black refugees within the broader scholarship on refugees, human rights, and the law of war. The lecture is part of Duke University's year-long centenary tribute to Franklin, who was the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History and taught Constitutional History at the Law School for seven years.' -- +Duke University School of Law 

Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'

'Growing up in Miami as the child of a Haitian father and a French mother, singer Cécile McLorin Salvant heard a wide range of music, including that of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan. She first studied classical voice, but turned to jazz because it offered her more range. "In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows," she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Her 2013 album, WomanChild, was named one of the year's 10 best in the 2013 NPR Jazz Critics Poll; Her new record is For One to Love.'