#BackChannel: Responding To Sexual Assault, 'Mudbound' And #FreeMeek

The number of women coming forward with accounts of sexual assault and harassment continues to grow. The recent surge in allegations has put toxic masculinity and patriarchy in the spotlight, but many questions remain, such as: are Black and White accusers are treated differently.

On this edition of WUNC ’s #BackChannel with Natalie Bullock Brown and Mark Anthony Neal, State of Things host Frank Stasio talks with them about sexual assault, the new Dee Rees’s directed film Mudbound and the recent strict sentencing of rapper Meek Mill for violating his probation (for a youthful offense) -- a sentencing that has generated protests in response to what is perceived as discrimination in the criminal justice system.

Natalie Bullock Brown, professor of film and broadcast media at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, and Mark Anthony Neal, chair of the department of African and African American Studies at Duke University in Durham.