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Why Solitary Confinement is Modern Day Torture

"As of 2013, there were 80,000 men and women in solitary confinement in the United States, some of them as young as 14 years old. In this illustrated op-ed video, artist Molly Crabapple explains the psychological and physical trauma suffered by those forced to spend 22-24 hours a day alone — sometimes for arbitrary reasons, like reading the wrong book, or having the wrong tattoo — in a grey, concrete box." -- Fusion

Left of Black S5:E22: Queer Black Visionaries

Left of Black S5:E22: Queer Black Visionaries
In this special episode of Left of Black, taped with a live audience at Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity at Duke University, Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined by filmmaker and photographer Katina Parker (@KatinaParker). Neal and Parker discuss her forthcoming documentary series Truth.Be.Told. which examines the lives of Queer Black Visionaries including Staceyann Chin, Darnell Moore, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Justin Robinson. Truth.Be.Told. makes its festival debut with at Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, March 13-14.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).*** Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U***
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New Black Man: 10th Anniversary Edition

New Black Man: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Mark Anthony NealRoutledge | Taylor & Francis Group (2015)
Ten years ago, Mark Anthony Neal’s New Black Man put forth a revolutionary model of Black masculinity for the twenty-first century—one that moved beyond patriarchy to embrace feminism and combat homophobia. Now, Neal’s book is more vital than ever, urging us to imagine a New Black Man whose strength resides in family, community, and diversity. Part memoir, part manifesto, this book celebrates the Black man of our times in all his vibrancy and virility.
The tenth anniversary edition of this classic text includes a new foreword by Joan Morgan and a new introduction and postscript from Neal, which bring the issues in the book up to the present day.
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Deeply personal, wickedly insightful, and politically transformative, New Black Man is a must-read on black men and feminism in the 21st century. Neal demonstrates yet again why he is one of the leading scholar-activists of our time.

David Ikard, chair of Africana Studies, University of Miami

Mark Anthony Neal is just about as dope as dope can get. In New Black Man, he provided the blueprint for a new generation of black men to do the work of interrogating masculinity, and a decade later it is still the definitive black male feminist text. It's a classic in every sense of the word.

Mychal Denzel Smith, Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and contributing writer for The Nation

One Word: Black Males 5-50 Respond to the Word 'Police'

Cut invited black males from 5 - 50 (and every age in between) to respond to one word: "Police."

Microphone Check Live: 'The Spook Who Sat By The Door' Panel Discussion

Frannie Kelley for NPRNPR's Microphone Check hosted panel discussion on the film The Spook Who Sat by The Door (1973), based on the Sam Greenlee novel of the same name. Panelists included   Dr. Greg Carr , Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, Jamilah Lemieux, Senior Editor at Ebony Magazine, and K. Nyerere Ture , an anthropologist and professor at Morgan State University and moderator Cedric Shine.

Siva Vaidhyanthan on the FCC's Net Neutrality Vote

Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, talks with On the Media's Brooke Gladstone about the FCC's vote on Net Neutrality and the next digital battleground.

'The Black Summit' Draws Black Skiers And Boarders To Aspen

Sonya Doctorian for NPR'Participants in winter sports are predominantly white, but the National Brotherhood of Skiers has been trying to change that for 42 years. More than 50 regional clubs came to this year's gathering.' -- NPR's Code Switch

Askwith Forum: A Space of Their Own? Girls, Women & STEM

The Askwith Forum at the Harvard Graduate School of Education discusses underrepresentation of Women and Girls in STEM with panelists Kimberly Bryant, Founder, Black Girls CODE; Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College; Jane Margolis, Ed.M.'88, Ed.D.'90, Senior Researcher, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies; Stephanie Wilson, Astronaut, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Moderated by Karen Brennan, Assistant Professor of Education, HGSE.

Arise Xchange: Byron Allen talks Lawsuit Against Time Warner & Comcast

Byron Allen, Chairman and CEO of Entertainment Studios discusses his lawsuit against Time Warner & Comcast.  In this interview with Arise America, Allen makes important distinction between Black "targeted" media and Black-owned media.

Intersections Symposium: Sexuality, Gender, Race & Ethnicity—Morgan State University | March 7th