Left of Black S13 · E13 | Sophia Chang on 'The Baddest Bitch in the Room'

In the face of ongoing calls to "be patient" during the Civil Rights Era, how did activists and artists use Black theater, and Black performance more broadly, as a form of dissidence to make change? Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr., a scholar of Performance Studies and Black Literature and an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, joins Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Dr. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss his new book, Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation (NYU Press, 2022).