Left of Black S2:E9 with Vijay Prashad and Leyla Farah

Left of Black S2:E9w/Vijay Prashad and Leyla Farah November 7, 2011
Host and Duke University Professor MarkAnthony Neal is joined via Skype© by VijayPrashad , Georgeand Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of InternationalStudies at Trinity College andauthor of the recent award winning book TheDarker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (The New Press, paperback 2008).  Neal and Prashad, discuss the impact ofthe #Occupy Movement and what role Left academics and intellectuals have toplay in the movement.Later Neal is joined by Leyla Farah, author of Black Gifted and Gay which profiles the lives and accomplishments of thelesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community's living icons—who  just happen to be of Africandescent.  Farah is a FoundingPartner at Cause+Effect, a PR firm focused exclusively on the lesbian, gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
***
Left ofBlack is a weekly Webcast hosted byMark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at DukeUniversity.
***
Episodesof Left of Black are also available for download @ iTunes U :