Left of Black S2:E24 | Black Masculinity in the Documentary Frame

Left of Black S2:E24 | March 19, 2012
Black Masculinity in the Documentary Frame
Hostand Duke University Professor MarkAnthony Neal is joined via Skype© by filmmaker Ron Chepesiuk, who discusses his new film The Frank Matthews Story: The Rise andDisappearance of America's Biggest Kingpin . The film will be screened March 23, 2012 at the HaytiHeritage Center in Durham, NC.  Chepesiuk talksabout the 1970s drug trade, describes why Matthews is one of America's lesserknown gangsters, despite his successful and brilliant operation, and sharessome of the D.B. Cooper-like details of Matthews' disappearance in 1974.
Later,Neal is joined via Skype© by JonathanGayles, professor of African American Studiesat Georgia State University and writer, director, and producer of the film WhiteScripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in American Comic Books (CaliforniaNewsreel).  Gayles discusses reactionsto his movie, which won best documentary feature at the 2010 Urban MediaMakers Film Festival and remembers the impact of the late Dwayne McDuffie,founder of Milestone Media. Neal and Gayles also discuss Black EntertainmentTelevision's ill-fated attempt to bring the animated series BlackPanther to television.
***Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced incollaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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