Black Studies for the Digital Soul: Upcoming Episodes of Left of Black (Spring 2016)

Black Studies for the Digital Soul: Upcoming Episodes of Left of Black (Spring 2016)
•  January 15 – Left of Black on the Root with Bettina LoveFull Episode S6:E15 Available on January 18
Bettina Love is the author of Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South  and co-editor of Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out
• January 22 – Left of Black on the Root with Anne-Maria MakhuluFull Episode S6:E16 Available on January 25
Anne-Maria Makhulu is the author of  Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home
• January 29 – Left of Black on the Root with Judy Richardson & Charlie CobbFull Episode S6:E17 Available on February 1
Judy Richardson & Charlie Cobb are veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Richardson is co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC; Cobb is the author of This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
• February 5 – Left of Black on the Root with Tanisha FordFull Episode S6:E18 Available on February 8
Tanisha C. Ford is the author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (Gender and American Culture)
• February 12 – Left of Black on the Root with Rennie Harris + Thomas DeFrantz + PureMovementFull Episode S6:E19  Available on February 15
#BlackMovementMatters: Rennie Harris is founder and artistic director of Rennie Harris PureMovement. Thomas DeFrantz is the author of Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture and co-editor of Black Performance Theory
• February 19 – Left of Black on the Root with Ed Pavlić + Guest Host Tsitsi Ella JajiFull Episode S6:E20  Available on February 22
Ed Pavlić is the author of  Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners.  Guest host Tsitsi Ella Jaji is the author of Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity.
• February 26 – Left of Black on the Root with Adam MansbachFull Episode S6:E21  Available on February 29
Adam Mansbach is the author of Angry Black White Boy: A Novel + Rage Is Back: A Novel + Go the F**k to Sleep
• March 4 – Left of Black on the Root with Alexis De VeauxFull Episode S6:E22  Available on March 7
Alexis DeVeaux is the author of Yabo + Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
• March 11 – Left of Black on the Root with Bert Ashe + Natalie Bullock BrownFull Episode S6:E23  Available on March 14
Bert Ashe is the author of Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles. Natalie Bullock Brown is director and producer of the forthcoming documentary baartman, beyoncé & me.
• March 18 – Left of Black on the Root with Simone DrakeFull Episode S6:E24  Available on March 21
Simone Drake is the author of Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity.
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Left of Black is produced at the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, in conjunction with the Center for Arts + Digital Culture + Entrepreneurship at Duke University.