Left of Black S2:E7 with Jonathan Gayles and Alondra Nelson

Left of Black S2:E7w/Jonathan Gayles and Alondra Nelson October24, 2011
JonathanGayles,professor of African American Studies at Georgia State University and writer,director, and producer of the film WhiteScripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in American Comic Books joinshost and Duke University Professor MarkAnthony Neal on Left of Black.Gayles discusses reaction to his movie, which won best documentary feature atthe 2010 Urban Media Makers FilmFestival and remembers the impact of the late Dwayne McDuffie founder of Milestone Media. Neal and Gayles also discussBlack Entertainment Television's ill-fated attempt to bring the animated seriesBlack Panther to television.Neal is also joined by Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party andthe Fight Against Medical Discrimination Nelson reveals the historicalrelationship between the Black Panther Party and medicine.  Nelson remindsaudiences of the real danger Civil Rights activists faced while marching andsitting-in, and how issues of healthcare were of practical concern given thethreats of violence.  Nelson highlights the how the work of the BlackPanther Party continues to inform community medicine movements.
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Left ofBlack is a weekly Webcast hosted byMark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope FranklinCenter at Duke University.
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