Left of Black S7:E2: Talking The #ProfessionalBlackGirl Movement with Scholar/Producer Yaba Blay

Left of Black S7:E2:  Talking The #ProfessionalBlackGirl Movement with Scholar/Producer Yaba Blay
On this episode of Left of Black, host Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in-studio by Dr. Yaba Blay (@FiyaWata) in a discussion of her new web series #ProfessionalBlackGirl, her forthcoming series Adventures at Beauty World, and Black Hair culture and style.
Blay is currently the Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science at North Carolina Central University and the author of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race, which explores the interconnected nuances of skin color politics and Black racial identity, and challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality.

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 and in conjunction with the Center for Arts + Digital Culture + Entrepreneurship (CADCE) and the Duke Council on Race + Ethnicity.
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