Left of Black S13 · E14 | "Requiem for the Enslaved" with Composer Carlos Simon and Rapper Marco Pavé

272 enslaved people were sold by Georgetown University in 1838 to bring in much-needed funds to preserve itself. Recently, the university has strove to make amends for this tremendous act of inhumanity. But composer Carlos Simon, Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown, felt that something should be done to commemorate the enslaved through an artistic lens. Thus began a collaboration with Georgetown’s first hip-hop artist-in-residence, Memphis-based Marco Pavé, to create the Simon's album, Requiem for the Enslaved, released by Decca Music. The album was nominated for “Best Contemporary Classical Composition" at the 2023 Grammy Awards. Host and Duke University Professor, Mark Anthony Neal  spent some time with the musicians in this special episode of Left of Black, produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.