Mark Anthony Neal's Blog, page 861

Mariano Rivera on the 'Charlie Rose Show'

Charlie Rose Show
Yankees Pitcher Mariano Rivera on being honored by the Boston Red Sox.

Book Trailer: Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood by Ruth Nicole Brown

University of Illinois Press

A creative space for the performance of radically new interpretations of Black girls' lived experiences
This volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and womanhood."This impressive and refreshing book explores the creative potential of Black girlhood and offers a variety of options for ways to engage Black girls and work with them to become the very best of who they are destined to be. Ruth Nicole Brown's work will no doubt have a lasting impact."--Gwendolyn D. Pough, author of Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere
Ruth Nicole Brown is an assistant professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy and coeditor ofWish to Live: The Hip-Hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader.

The War Between Establishment Republicans and Insurgent Conservatives

NYTVideo
One of the major conflicts in American politics occurs within a single party. Sam Tanenhaus explains how the fight between establishment conservatives and insurgents has shaped the GOP.

'From Dr. Ben to Uncle Ben': W. Kamau Bell on Dr. Ben Carson

Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell
Kamau calls Dr. Ben Carson out for saying Obamacare is the worst thing to happen since slavery. Smart phone assistant Siri would beg to differ.

Left of Black @ Harvard: Marcyliena Morgan, Executive Director of the HipHop Archive & Research Institute

Left of Black S4:E5 | Left of Black @ Harvard: Marcyliena Morgan, Executive Director of the HipHop Archive and Research Institute
On location at the HipHop Archive and Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research in Cambridge, MA, Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African & African American Studies, and Founder and Executive Director of the HipHop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard.
Morgan, the author of Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture  (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground  (Duke University Press, 2009), discusses the vision of the HipHop Archive and Research Institute and the establishment of the Nasir Jones HipHop Fellowship.
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.
***
Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in @ iTunes U
***
Follow Left of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlackFollow Mark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackManFollow The HipHop Archive and Research Institute on Twitter: @HipHopArchive Follow Marcyliena Morgan on Twitter: @MCSatire

Jackie Robinson's Last Public Appearance: October 15, 1972 (World Series Game Two)

I watched these final moments of Jackie Robinson's public life with my dad; When Robinson died nine days later, my dad made sure I fully understood his significance, to not only baseball, but as a Black man trying to navigate the realities of an American life.  We had similar conversations a year later as Hank Aaron chased down Babe Ruth's 714--the two-homer game that Aaron had against the Mets during the summer of 1973, with my dad and I in the stands at Shea Stadium,  remains one of my most cherished moments with him. And yet more conversation in 1975, when another Robinson--Frank--fulfilled Jack Robinson's dream-deferred, by becoming Major League Baseball first Black manager. --Mark Anthony Neal

Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd: Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project

Vijay Iyer
This is the latest joint project from award-winning composer/pianist Vijay Iyer and celebrated poet/producer/emcee Mike Ladd, in collaboration with young veterans from the US's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: ex-Marine Maurice Decaul and Air Force veteran (and ex-Predator Drone pilot) Lynn Hill.Announcing the release of HOLDING IT DOWN: THE VETERANS' DREAMS PROJECT, the new album by Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd, out September 10 on Pi Recordings. More info:http://www.pirecordings.com/vets 

Palimpsest Volume #2, Issue #2: The Queerness of Hip Hop / The Hip Hop of Queerness (TOC)

Volume #2, Issue #2

Editor’s Introduction T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers
Guest Editor’s Introduction: “As Queer as Hip Hop” C. Riley Snorton
Forum
Hip Hop and the Black Ratchet Imagination L. H. Stallings
Hip Hop Spice Boyz Richard T. Rodríguez
Queer Hip Hop and its Dark Precursors Tavia Nyong’o
Hip Hop, Pleasure, and its Fulfillment Jayna Brown
Holler If You Can Hear Me Sharon P. Holland
Trafficking in Monikers: Jay-Z’s “Queer” Flow Mark Anthony Neal
Untitled Imani Perry
Boyfriends with Clits and Girlfriends with Dicks: Hip Hop’s Queer Future Rinaldo Walcott
Essays
Referential Sights and Slights C. Riley Snorton
Homolatent Masculinity & Hip Hop Culture Moya Bailey
Fat Mutha: Hip Hop’s Queer Corpulent Poetics Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
“Put Some Bass in Your Walk”: Notes on Queerness, Hip Hop, and the Spectacle of the Undoable Scott Poulson-Bryant
Book Nook: Reviews
Elisa Joy White, Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012) Review by Robert J. Topinka
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012) Review by Emily A. Owens
Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011) Review by Kemi Adeyemi
Contributors

For Colored Boys, REDEMPTION | 'Give Me a Chance' Ep. 7 of 8 (dir. Stacey Muhammad)

WildSeedFilm
Season 1, Episode 7 of 8 For Colored Boys, REDEMPTION. 
A soul-stirring dramatic series about a father's attempt to repair his broken family after being released from prison, starring Rob Morgan and Julito McCullum with Tim Reid and Jacinto Taras Riddick.
with Lauren Hooper, Nashawn Kearse, Kai Muhammad, Jas Anderson, Ryan Stephenson, and Brittany Chance.
Created, Written and Directed by Stacey Muhammad for Wildseed Films
Executive Produced by Isaiah Washington
Executive Produced by Marc Lamont Hill
Produced by Michael Boogie Pinckney (Black Noise Media) 
Produced by Lisa Cynical Smith (Bucktown USA) and The NY Frequency.
Starring: Rob Morgan and Julito McCullum with Tim Reid and Jacinto Taras Riddick
Cast: Lauren Hooper, Nashawn Kearse, Jas Anderson, Lamar K. Cheston, Ephriam Fetti Benton, Brittany Chance, Kai Muhammad, Tekomin Wiliams, Brandhyze Stanley, Ryan Stephenson, Krystal Farris. 
Guest appearances by Stephen Hill, Corey Roberts and Prince Po.

Director of Photography: J Anders Urmacher
Edited by: Max Papadop
Casting Director: Tiandra Gayle
Art Direction: Phillip Shung
Music Director: General Steele of Bucktown, USA
Unit Production Manager: Oveta Clinton
Wardrobe Supervisor: Danielle Miller
Hair and Makeup: Jewel Whinfield 

www.forcoloredboysseries.com

The Queen of Bounce Big Freedia on the MHP Show

MHP Show
Have you met Big Freedia? The New Orleans-based Queen of Bounce will be in #Nerdland to talk about her new reality show and setting the twerking world record.