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Reading Rainbow Returns as iPad App: LaVar Burton on HuffPost Live

HuffPostLive  Reading Rainbow is back! LeVar Burton discusses the importance of childhood literacy, the Reading Rainbow iPad App and his new show "Perception." Janet Varney and LeVar Burton are joined by guests Dr. Kelly Hunter and Josh Brooks to discuss.

What's Driving Dropout Rate For Black, Latino Men?

The Return of StereoTypes - Season 2 Trailer

i am OTHER 
Back by popular demand, Ryan Hall is hitting the streets of New York for Season 2 of StereoTypes. New episode premieres Saturday, September 22nd on the i am OTHER channel.

50 Cent Discusses World Hunger with Marc Lamont Hill on HuffPost Live

HuffPostLive
Curtis Jackson (50 Cent) discusses growing up in the 'hood, eating cheese sandwiches and experiencing other hardships before he rose to fame with HuffPost Live's Marc Lamont Hill.

Big Think: Don't Fear the Gadget—From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

Big Think 
Author and Journalist Jeff Jarvis warns against the tendency to view new technology as a threat, arguing that this stance cedes power to regulators and corporations that may not have the public's best interests at heart.

"A Strange Kind of Justice" -- The Wednesday Sermon: Rev. Dr. Maurice Wallace

Sermon by Duke Professor, the Rev. Dr. Maurice Wallace on September 21, 2008 at Duke University Chapel.

Is Breastfeeding While Teaching Inappropriate?

Feministing Founder Jessica Valenti on Politics & Parenting

ExplodedView MEF  Author Jessica Valenti talks to Exploded View about feminism and parenting politics, internet trolls, and her new book "Why Have Kids?"

'Left of Black' S3:E1: "Race and the Digital Humanities"

Left of Black S3:E1 | September 17, 2012 Race and the Digital Humanities
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Howard Rambsy II, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and Director of the Black Studies Program at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and Jessica Marie Johnson, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Richards Civil War Era Center and African Research Center at Penn State University.
Neal, Rambsy and Johnson discuss the “Digital Humanities,” one of the current academic buzzwords,  and the double-bind that the Digital Humanities can present for scholars working within the context of Race, particularly within Black Studies. 
Rambsy is the author  of The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African-American Poetry (University of Michigan Press) and the curator of  SIUE Black Studies. Johnson is the curator of, Diaspora Hypertext & African Diaspora, Ph.D.
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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 HD @ iTunes U

Rev. Otis Moss III on "Invisible Racism"

Otis Moss III:
"​In this day of the viral "empty chair," the church community and the interfaith community must speak to the "empty chair" and what it represents. The "empty chair" represents invisible racism and voter suppression in America."