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Tell Me More with Michel Martin: Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps

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Trinity United Pastor Otis Moss III Speaks Back to Black Church Homophobia & Patriarchy

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Left of Black S2:E32 | American Bandstand & the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Visual Literacy

Left of Black S2:E32 | May 14, 2012
American Bandstand & the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Visual Literacy
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Professor Matthew Delmont (Scripps College), author of the just published The NicestKids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock N’ Roll and the Struggle forCivil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia. (University of California Press)  Neal and Delmont discuss the racial politics in the city of Philadelphia in the 1950s that informed American Bandstand’s early practices of limiting the presence of Black kids in the show’s early years as well as the role of the show in constructing an idealized image American youth.  Delmont also highlights the role of Black media personalities Mitch Thomas and Georgie Woods in the success of American Bandstand.                     
Later Neal is joined, also via Skype, by designer, curator, illustrator, cartoonist, and award-winning graphic novelist John Jennings, author (with Damien Duffy) of Black Comix: African AmericanIndependent Comics, Art & Culture .  Jennings, a Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Buffalo, discusses the importance on visual literacy, the challenges within the comic industry to address race, the labor of racial stereotypes, and the recent Tupac hologram.        
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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
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New Video from Jasiri X: "You're Fired" (for Governor Scott Walker)

Jasirix:

Download for Free at http://jasirix.bandcamp.com/track/youre-fired

https://twitter.com/jasiri_x

I was in Madison, Wisconsin when the citizens took over the statehouse and it was one of the most amazing events I've witnessed. I saw firsthand the power of regular people coming together in unity to fight back against corrupt politicians and corporate influence. I'm honored to add my voice to this historic campaign to recall Scott Walker and rebuild Wisconsin.

"You're Fired" was directed by Paradise Gray and stars Silas Russell as "Scott Walker"

LYRICS
Yeah, it's time for a Recall
Untied we stand divided we fall
We tired of being treated like we small
You forgot you work for us and we the boss

So let's tell Scott Walker you're fired
Go clean out ya desk cause you're fired
Cash that last check cause you're fired
You don't wanna show us respect now you're fired

The powers with the people don't let these coward device you
Like since it's time to vote now they need you
We are not who these politicians speak to
When it's $10,000 a plate just to meet you
Ask Mr Walker about all his offers
Barely half a term look how much it cost ya
Month after month of consecutive job losses
While he with the Koch brothers in aspen straight flossin
He's with the NRA they got they guns cocked
He passed stand your ground just took him one shot
And that lead to the death of Bo Morrison
Such a bright future now they're more morning him
This election they don't even want you voting in
Tried to make you have an ID before going in
But now accountable is what we're holding them
Open up the polls we got the whole hood rolling in

Yeah, it's time for a Recall
Untied we stand divided we fall
We tired of being treated like we small
You forgot you work for us and we the boss

So let's tell Scott Walker you're fired
Go clean out ya desk cause you're fired
Cash that last check cause you're fired
You don't wanna show us respect now you're fired

Is this who you really want as ya governor
The second he gets elected wanna stunt on ya
Got you're vote now he got no love for ya
Every day he got a new way of hand cuffing ya
Like education nah we don't need that
We don't wanna to pay anybody to teach that
Ease back see they really believe that
Smart people vote so they don't want you to be that
Or make a good living that pays
Scott Walker rather see you making minimum wage
With no unions, no benefits and no future
So his corporate friends can stay rich it's so super
Unless you're working class or poor
they always slam the door on what we asking for
It's all we can stand and we can't stand no more
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Black Girls Swim: 17-Year-old Lia Neal Wins the 100m Freestyle at 2012 Charlotte Grand Prix

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2012, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Ultra Swim Grand Prix, 17 year old Lia Neal (Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics) gets the win at 54.35 seconds, beating Jessica Hardy by .01 seconds, Natalie Coughlin was 3rd.

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Marc Lamont Hill Talks with Schomburg Director Khalil Muhammad on Our World with Black Enterprise

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Black Enterprise talks to Khalil Muhammad on Our World with Black Enterprise, with host Marc Lamont Hill. Muhammad, head of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture talks about his plans to continue the institution's legacy.[image error]

Michael Eric Dyson to Black Church: "Don't Ask God to Co-sign Your Bigotry"

with Obery Hendricks and Bishop Harry Jackson.

Happy Mother's Day: Sociologist Mignon Moore Discusses Black Lesbian Families

 Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Sociologist Mignon Moore, author of the new book Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black Women (University of California Press).  Moore is associate professor of Sociology at UCLA.

Need Inspiration to be a Black Superhero? How About Single Black Mothers

Mark Anthony Neal from White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in American Comic Books (dir. Jonathan Gayles, 2012)

Did Dick Clark Overstate the Role of American Bandstand on American Race Relations? On the May 14th Left of Black

Did Dick Clark Overstate the Role of American Bandstand on American Race Relations? On the May 14th Left of Black
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Professor Matthew Delmont (Scripps College), author of the just published The NicestKids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock N’ Roll and the Struggle forCivil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia (University of California Press).  Neal and Delmont discuss the racial politics in the city of Philadelphia in the 1950s that informed American Bandstand’s  practices of limiting the presence of Black kids in the show’s early years as well as the role of the show in constructing an idealized image American youth.  Delmont also highlights the role of Black media personalities Mitch Thomas and Georgie Woods in the success of American Bandstand.                     
Later, Neal is joined, also via Skype, by designer, curator, illustrator, cartoonist, and award-winning graphic novelist JohnJennings , author (with Damien Duffy) of Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art & Culture.  Jennings, a Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Buffalo, discusses the importance of visual literacy, the challenges within the comic industry to address race and the recent Tupac hologram.        
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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/left-of-black. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive. 
Left of Blackis recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.
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