Why Black Queer Characters on Prime Television are Important

In this episode of Left of Black on The Root,  host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Professor Sheena C. Howard to discuss the significance of Black Queer characters on prime time television series such as Empire and Scandal.  Howard is Assistant Professor of Communications at Rider University and the author  of Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards An Integrated Queer of Color Framework and co-editor with Ronald L. Jackson II of Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation which won the 2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Scholarly and Academic Book.