In Conversation: Marc Lamont Hill + Mark Anthony Neal @ Duke on Sept 29th

Author, Scholar & Public Intellectual Marc Lamont Hill  in Conversation w/ Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal
BlackLivesMatter + The Birth of the Nation + the Role of Public Intellectuals

Thursday,  September 29, 2016 @ 7:00 pmFull Frame Theater -- Old Power Plant at American Tobacco Campus318 Blackwell St, Durham, NC 27701

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is currently the host of BET News and VH1 Live, as well as a political contributor for CNN. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hill is Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College. Dr. Hill is the author or co-author of four books: the award-winning Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity; The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black life in America; Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on The Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond; and Gentrifier (January 2017). He has also published two edited books: Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility; and Schooling Hip-Hop: New Directions in Hip-Hop Based Education. Trained as an anthropologist of education, Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, and education.