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Pan-African Space Station Presents: Neo Muyanga--"Revolting Songs"

Pan African Space Station (PASS) presents ibrettist and musician Neo Muyanga in the second in series of concert/lectures held at the Chimurenga headquarters in Cape Town as well as satellite locations across the African world.

#TheRemix: Pam and Ramona Africa Remember the Early Days of MOVE

In this episode of #TheRemix with James Braxton Peterson , Pam and Ramona Africa recall the early days of MOVE and how they became involved with the group in the 1970s.

"Whose Black Lives Matter? The Politics of Black Love and Violence"—a Lecture by Cathy Cohen

In the lecture at the Hale Hall Black Cultural Center at The Ohio State University, Political Scientist Cathy J. Cohen discusses the Politics of Black Love and Violence in the era of #BlackLivesMatter. Cohen is is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Chicago. The event was sponsored by the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Fear of a Black Planet @ 25—#DukeHistoryofHipHop : “Welcome to the Terror[Duke]”

Fear of a Black Planet @ 25—#DukeHistoryofHipHop : “Welcome to the Terror[Duke]”

In commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the release of Public Enemy’s seminal Fear of a Black Planet , students in the “History of Hip-Hop” course, co-taught by Patrick Douthit (9th Wonder) and Mark Anthony Neal, at Duke University were charged with creating digital projects that translated the album’s historical significance into contemporary contexts.
Group members: Conor Smith, Glynn Chatmon, Erik Garrigo, Amber Henson, Alex Kreger, Jacob Miller, Mike Redlicki, Sam Waters, Tajj Badil-Abish.
Many thanks to digital consultant Archana Gowda and Duke librarian Karen Jean Hunt, for their contributions to this project, as well as course teaching assistants Gloria Ayee, I. Augustus Durham and Dr. Danielle Parker. This project was supported by the Department of African & African American Studies and the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship.

Novelist Mat Johnson Explores The 'Optical Illusion' Of Being Biracial in New Novel 'Loving Day'

Novelist Mat Johnson talks with NPR's Code Switch about his new novel Loving Day , which takes a satirical look at growing up Biracial in the US.

#TheRemix: What 'The New Jim Crow' Gets Wrong about the Old Jim Crow

Parchman Fam Prison, 1930On this episode of #TheRemix with James Braxton Peterson, Political Scientist Adolph Reed suggest that analogies between "Old Jim Crow" and the "New Jim Crow" fail to recognize distinct differences between the two examples of systemic racism.

From the (Stone) Soul Picnic: Graham Central Station--"Your Love" | Faith Ringghold--"Tar Beach 2"

Faith Ringold, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Tar Beach 2, 1990 (detail). Acid dyes on bleached silk duppioni, and cotton. 65 x 65 inches (165.1 x 165.1 cm). Edition of 24.Graham Central Station's "Your Love" from the album Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It (1975).

Carlitta Durand: Music + Visuals for "Find a Way" from' I'll Be Gorgeous When I Die' (2015)

Music and Visuals from Carlitta Durand 's "Find a Way' from I'll be Gorgeous When I Die (2015). Video is directed by Napoleon Wright II.

The Organic Intellectual Lives of the 'Hood: A Gramsci Monument in The South Bronx

"In this episode of the ART21 "Exclusive" series residents and volunteers behind Thomas Hirschhorn's “Gramsci Monument” (2013) discuss their efforts to create the site-specific participatory sculpture at The Forest Houses complex in the Bronx, New York. While enlisting the participation of the residents of a Bronx public housing development to develop a sprawling installation out of everyday materials, Thomas Hirschhorn poses political and philosophical questions, and searches for alternative models of thinking and being. The process leads to the creation of a new kind of monument that, while physically ephemeral, lives on in collective memory." 

"You can't imagine Brazilian culture without Africa"--Art Historian Roberto Conduro on Brazlian Art in the 1970s

Carlos Julião. Coroação de uma rainha negra na Festa de Reis, c. 1776.In this candid interview with the Global Brazil Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University,  art historian and scholar Roberto Conduru (Rio de Janeiro State University/ UERJ) discusses how potent the African influence is on Brazil's art world between the 1960s & 1970s.