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Who is Black? The (1)Ne Drop Project on the November 19th 'Left of Black'

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The (1)Ne Drop Project on the November 19^th Left of Black</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within a political economy of race and difference, was a blatant attempt to embolden Whiteness and the privilege that derived from it.  Scholar <b>Yaba Blay</b> offers a different view of the “one drop” rule with her multi-media project <b><i><a href="http://1nedrop.com/">(1)ne Drop<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span></a></i></b>which “seeks to challenge narrow, yet popular perceptions of what Blackness is and what Blackness looks like.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Blay, a Visiting Professor of African<b>a</b>Studies at Drexel University and contributing producer to CNN’s <i>Black in America 5</i>, which was inspired by the <i><a href="http://1nedrop.com/">(1)ne Drop</a></i> project, joins Duke University Professor<b> Mark Anthony Neal</b> on the November 19^th episode of Left of Black to talk about the complexities of Black identity.  Neal is also joined by University of Washington<b> </b>Professor <b>Habiba Ibrahim</b> for part two of an interview about her new book <i><a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-divisi... the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism</a></i>(University of Minnesota Press).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&... of Black</a> airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel:<a href="http://tinyurl.com/LeftofBlack"&... style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.  </span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Left of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlack</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Mark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackMan</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Yaba Blay on Twitter: @FiyaWata</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com...' alt='' /></div>

Our World with Black Enterprise: Zerlina Maxwell and Michael Eric Dyson Discuss Re-Election of Barack Obama

BEMultiMedia  We look at President Barack Obama's successful re-election bid and what it means for America over the next four years. Our guests include: David Webb, co-founder of Tea Party 365; Zerlina Maxwell, political analyst and writer for the New York Daily News; and Michael Eric Dyson, author and professor of sociology at Georgetown University.

David Frost Interviews Archbishop Desmond Tutu

AlJazeera English  Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the famous Nobel laureate, and one of the world's most respected church leaders, was a central figure in ensuring an end to white minority rule in South Africa.

He was instrumental in the struggle against apartheid, also acting as chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). He has since gone on to play a role as one of Nelson Mandela's handpicked Elders along with others like former US President Jimmy Carter.

The archbishop takes Sir David Frost on a tour of his beloved South Africa; he talks about his time in the anti-apartheid struggle movement, his work with the TRC, and his alarm over recent developments in the "rainbow nation".

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

Democracy Now
Academy Award-winning Oliver Stone has teamed up with historian Peter Kuznick to produce a 10-part Showtime series called, "Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States." Drawing on archival findings and recently declassified documents, the filmmakers critically examine U.S. history -- from the atomic bombing of Japan, to the Cold War, to the fall of Communism, and continuing all the way through to the Obama administration. Contrary to what's taught in schools across the country, the filmmakers found the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were militarily unnecessary and morally indefensible.

Stone and Kuznick also suggest the Soviet Union, not the United States, ultimately defeated the Germans in World War II. And, they assert the United States, not the Soviet Union, bore the lion's share of responsibility for perpetuating the Cold War. The filmmakers also found U.S. presidents, especially in wartime, have frequently trampled on the Constitution and international law, and they note the United States has brought the world dangerously close to nuclear war by repeatedly brandishing nuclear threats. The first episode of the series aired Monday night on Showtime. For more about this series and the companion book, we are joined by Stone and Kuznick.

Van Jones on What Progressives Should Expect in President Obama's Second Term

Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism

Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism
November 12, 2012
For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), Marcia Dawkins, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California provides a fresh take on the practice arguing that passing in the contemporary moment transcends racial performance.
Dawkins talks about her new book with Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal, via Skype.  Neal is also joined by University of Washington Professor Habiba Ibrahimfor part one of a two-part interview about her new book Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (University of Minnesota Press) in which she links the rise of Multiracialism in the 1990s to the maintenance of traditional gender norms.
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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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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in  @ iTunes U

@IssaRae Presents: "Roomieloverfriends" | Episode 7 of 9

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Episode 7: "Personal" - Tamiko and Cherisse become "closer."
 NEXT EPISODE: Saturday DEC. 1
(We are on vacation for Thanksgiving Weekend).

"Roomieloverfriends" is a BLACK&SEXY.TV production @blackandsexytv

The Legacy of Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism on the November 12th 'Left of Black'

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In her new book, <i><a href="http://www.clearlyinvisiblebook.com/a... Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity</a></i> (Baylor University Press), <b>Marcia Dawkins</b>, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California provides a fresh take on the practice arguing that passing in the contemporary moment transcends racial performance.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Dawkins talks about her new book with <b>Left of Black</b> host and <b>Duke University</b> Professor <b>Mark Anthony Neal</b>, via Skype.  Neal is also joined by University of Washington Professor <b>Habiba Ibrahim</b>for part one of a two-part interview about her new book <i><a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-divisi... the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism</a></i>(University of Minnesota Press) in which she links the rise of Multiracialism in the 1990s to the maintenance of traditional gender norms.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&... of Black</a> airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel:<a href="http://tinyurl.com/LeftofBlack"&... class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Left of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlack</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Mark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackMan</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Marcia Dawkins on Twitter: @drdawkins09</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com...' alt='' /></div>

Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols—Lt. Uhuru—on Integrating Prime Time Television

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Nichelle Nichols on her groundbreaking Star Trek role, a vital encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr. and NASA recruitment.

Raising a Glass for the Late Major Harris: "Love Won't Let Me Wait"

HuffPost (MICHAEL FELBERBAUM):
RICHMOND, Va. — Major Harris, a former member of the "Philadelphia sound" soul group the Delfonics and singer of the 1975 hit "Love Won't Let Me Wait," has died in Richmond. He was 65.
His sister, Catherine Thomas, told The Associated Press that Harris passed away Friday morning from congestive heart and lung failure after being rushed to a hospital.
The Richmond native was born Feb. 9, 1947, and grew up in a musical family. His father was a guitarist and his mother led the church choir, Thomas said.
In his teens, Harris was tall for his age and was able to get into clubs to watch musicians perform, she said.
"He always appeared to be older, which gave him a lot of ins to a lot of older places," Thomas joked.She said he didn't drink in the clubs back then, but he was pursuing his career. Music, she said, "was his life."
Harris made the rounds with several music groups in the 1960s, including the Charmers, Frankie Lymon's Teenagers and Nat Turner's Rebellion.
He then joined the Delfonics in the early 1970s, replacing Randy Cain in the group known for their hits "La-La (Means I Love You)" and "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)."
Harris left the group in 1974 to pursue a solo career. He recorded a string of R&B singles, including "Love Won't Let Me Wait," which peaked at No. 5 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and was certified as a gold record by the Recording Industry Association of America. The song was covered by Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams in 1994 and again by Luther Vandross on his 1988 album "Any Love."
Harris last performed in 2011 at a reunion show with some of the members of the Delfonics, Thomas said.