Left of Black S5:E14: On Family, Ferguson and Art

Left of Black S5:E14:  On Family, Ferguson and Art
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype  Liana Asim (@LianaAsim) and Jabari Asim (@JabariAsim) to talk about the current protests in response to police shootings, the social role of celebrities and artists, and the importance of family.
Liana Asim is a playwright and librettist; her most recent piece is Bedfellows, which examines the intimate relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Sneed.  Jabari Asim is Associate Professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston and the executive editor of The Crisis.  Asim is the author of several books including The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t  and Why (2007),  What Obama Means . . .For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future (2009) and Whose Toes are Those? (2006)  and the forthcoming novel Only the Strong. The Asims are the parents of five children.
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