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'Left of Black' Preview: Busting Myths About the Sex Trade in Brazil

The Root | Left of Black

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eft of Black host Mark Anthony Neal talks with Erica Lorraine Williams about her new book, Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. Williams is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Spelman College. For her book, Williams interviewed sex workers about their aspirations, whether they felt exploited and the discrimination that Afro-Brazilian women face.

Rashard Mendenhall: Boxed In, Then Leaving NFL At Age 26

Hip-Hop Music in the Classroom with 9th Wonder

The State of Things | WUNC
A new documentary, “Hip Hop Fellow,” follows Patrick Douthit aka 9th Wonder’s teaching experiences during his fellowship at Harvard University. The film premiers at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham next weekend.
Host Frank Stasio talks with Douthit; director Kenneth Price; and Duke University African and African-American studies professor Mark Anthony Neal.
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Talks @ Google: Motown the Musical

Talks @ Google: Motown the Musical

MOTOWN THE MUSICAL is the true American dream story of Motown founder Berry Gordy's journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and so many more.

Featuring classic songs such as "My Girl" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," MOTOWN THE MUSICAL tells the story behind the hits as Diana, Smokey, Berry and the whole Motown family fight against the odds to create the soundtrack that changed America. Motown shattered barriers, shaped our lives and made us all move to the same beat. Now, experience it live on Broadway in the record-breaking smash hit MOTOWN THE MUSICAL!


Moderated by Mark Douglas and Todd Womack

Left of Black S4:E25: The Cultural Impact of Kanye West

Left of Black S4:E25:  The Cultural Impact of Kanye West
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Julius Bailey, associate professor of philosophy at Wittenberg University, and Regina Bradley, an instructor of English and interdisciplinary studies at Kennesaw State University.  Bailey is the editor of The Cultural Impact of Kanye West (Palgrave MacMillan) in which Bradley contributed the essay “Kanye West’s Sonic (Hip-Hop) Cosmopolitanism.”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.
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'Rebel Music': When Hip-Hop Met Islam

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Jim Crow Wisdom: A Conversation with Jonathan Scott Holloway & Mark Anthony Neal (4-3-14)

The Duke Forum for Scholars and Publics Presents

Jim Crow Wisdom: A Conversation with Jonathan Scott Holloway & Mark Anthony Neal
What do we let ourselves remember of the past? How do our memories and forgettings reflect who we want to be and shape who we can become? In  Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory & Identity in Black America since 1940 , Yale University historian Jonathan Scott Holloway weaves intimate personal and family memories into his analysis of broad social, cultural, and political phenomena, bringing readers along with him to explore race memory from the beginning of the modern civil rights era to the present. Join us for a discussion of this exciting new book with Professor Holloway and Duke Professor of African & African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal.Thursday, April 3, 2014
Hayti Heritage Center
804 OLD FAYETTEVILLE STREET, DURHAM, NC 27701

7:00 – 8:00 p.m, with a book signing and reception to follow
A limited number of copies of  Jim Crow Wisdom will be available at The Regulator Bookshop on Ninth Street in Durham on a first-come, first-served basis. Simply go to the counter and tell them you are participating in the Forum for Scholars and Publics discussion, and they will give a copy free of charge.
Sponsored by Duke University’s Forum for Scholars and Publics and the Durham County Library.

Film Tackles Racial Stereotypes on Campus & Being a "Black Face in a White Space"

Democracy Now
As colleges across the country, from Harvard to University of Mississippi, continue to witness racism on campus, we look at a new film that tackles the issue through comedy and satire. Dear White People, follows a group of black students at a fictional, predominantly white, Ivy League school. One of the main characters, Sam, hosts the campus radio show "Dear White People," where she confronts the racist stereotypes and dilemmas faced by students of color. Racial tensions on campus come to a head when a group of mostly white students throw an African-American-themed party, wearing blackface and using watermelons and fake guns as props.


We speak to actor Marque Richardson and award-winning first-time director Justin Simien.

Talib Kweli Performs "Search & Destroy" from Iggy Pop & The Stooges

The Boombox | Off the Record
Brooklyn MC, Talib Kweli, covers Iggy Pop & The Stooges classic "Search & Destroy" live from MSR Studios in NYC for our series Off The Record

Anita Hill: How The Senate Failed Us In Harassment Hearings

HuffPost Live
Anita Hill ignited a political firestorm when she alleged that then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her while her supervisor. Here she discusses how she felt the senate—and Joe Biden—failed us during the harassment hearings.