Dr. Elaine Richardson: Her Story, Her Triumph

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For several years, Elaine Richardson led a turbulent life filled with abusive relationships and trauma-induced choices. She would have seemed like the last person to become a tenured professor at The Ohio State University, an award winning scholar, mentor, and first-rate singer-songwriter-performer; but today she is all of that and more. In addition to her published academic texts, Dr. E is in the process of publishing her personal memoir detailing her inspirational story of redemption and is becoming a much sought-after speaker, elevating audiences across the country: talking, singing and acting out the lowest to the highest points from her remarkable life story.

Left of Black S2:E31 | Words, Images and Literacy with dream hampton & Professor Elaine Richardson

Left of Black S2:E31 | May 7, 2012

Words, Images and Literacy with dream hampton and Professor Elaine Richardson

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by writer and filmmaker dream hampton.  Neal and hampton discuss her passions for writing and visual art, the cultural importance of the city of Detroit, directing her first music video for THEESatisfaction and her collaboration with Jay Z on Decoded (2010) and the unpublished The Black Book.

Later, Neal is joined via Skype by Ohio State University Professor Elaine Richardson aka Dr. E..  An nationally regarded expert on literacy among Black youth, Richardson is also an accomplished vocalist.  Neal and Richardson discuss balancing her academic career with her artistic career, her forthcoming memoir, PGD 2 PHD, which details her transition from a life on the streets, and the 2012 HipHop Literacies Conference (Ohio State University, May 9-11) which she curated.

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for free download in HD @ iTunes U

Left of Black ‘Decodes’ with dream hampton & Talks Black Literacy with Professor Elaine Richardson

Left of Black ‘Decodes’ with dream hampton & Talks Black Literacy with Professor Elaine Richardson

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by writer and filmmaker dream hampton.  Neal and hampton discuss her passions for writing and visual art, the cultural importance of the city of Detroit, directing her first music video for THEESatisfaction and her collaboration with Jay Z on Decoded (2010) and the unpublished The Black Book.

Later, Neal is joined via Skype by The Ohio State University Professor Elaine Richardson aka Dr. E..  An nationally regarded expert on literacy among Black youth, Richardson is also an accomplished vocalist.  Neal and Richardson discuss balancing her academic career with her artistic career, her forthcoming memoir, PGD 2 PHD, which details her transition from a life on the streets, and the 2012 HipHop Literacies Conference (The Ohio State University, May 9-11) which she curated.

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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/left-of-black. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive. 

Left of Blackis recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.

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2012 Hiphop Literacies Conference: The Globalization of Black Popular Culture at The Ohio State University

2012 Hiphop Literacies Conference: The Globalization of Black Popular Culture conference is designed to bring together scholars, educators, artists, students, and community members to explore Hiphop. The conference takes place May 9th-11th, 2012.

Hiphop and Black popular culture are central to global youth culture. An artistic, social, and cultural movement, it is diverse and reflects the local histories, cultures and concerns of its worldwide practitioners, while adhering to Hiphop's ideological and aesthetic imperatives. Global Hiphop has emerged from the "collision and collusion between two powerful globally pervasive forces; transnational media and capital and African American popular culture that remains steeped in Africanist expressive modes." Hiphop is a powerful force, a "lingua franca for popular and political youth culture around the world." Its cultural codes, such as coming from something to nothing, being authentic, leaving one's mark on the world, having aspirations, having self-confidence, being relevant, and most of all being cool, are drawn upon to sell brands and have been used to "[re-write] the rules of the new economy." Brand marketing extraordinaire Steve Stoute has termed this global tanning, a state of mind, an attitude, a mental complexion. What tanning promotes both here and abroad all tangled up in Black popular culture is the "American dream," a myth that has helped to promote individualism, civic abandonment, inequality and maintenance of the status quo that has been assailed by Black political activists and other progressives for generations. 

A major goal of "Hiphop Literacies" is to promote interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach around Hiphop, to stimulate ongoing dialogue and outreach across various disciplines in the academy and in the community. In addition to scheduled talks and workshops by renowned Hiphop scholars, artists and educators, the conference will host presentations and performances by scholars, students and community members. The conference will also feature a lecture and headline performance by MC Lyte. 

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Day One

9 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture and African American Studies Keynote & Town Hall (Wexner Film and TV Theater)
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch (on own)
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.	Hiphop and the Caribbean Diaspora (Ramseyer 166) Brazil and Japan (Arps 243)
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.	Hiphop Practitioners (Arps 177)
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.	Panel: Hawaii (Ramseyer 100) Panel: Zimbabwe, Egypt and Kenya (Ramseyer 166)
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.	Break for Dinner (on own)
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.	Hiphop Art for the People: (Evans Lab 1008) Speech is My Hammer: Hip Hop Art and the Reconstruction of African-­‐Centered Cultural Semiosis, Dr. Samuel Livingston DJing for the People, J. Rawls

Day Two

9 - 10:15 a.m.	Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Executive Director of the Hiphop Archive Keynote and Q&A (Wexner Film and TV Theater)
10:30 - 12:00 p.m.	Featured Roundtable "Race, Theory and Gender in Hiphop's Global Future" (Wexner Film and TV Theater) Drs. Treva Lindsey, James Braxton Peterson, Scott Heath and Ms. Regina Bradley
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch (on own)
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.	Linguistics and Literacies (Arps 002) Hiphop and Urban Education (Arps 200, Martha King Center)
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.	Hiphop Pedagogies: Visual, Community and Youth Literacies (Arps 002)
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.	Local Schools Panel/Community Town Hall (Wexner Film and TV Theater)
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.	Break for Dinner/Reception for Educators, Students and Community Members (University Hall 014)
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.	Workshop for Educators (University Hall 014) Daniel Gray-Kontar Group and Yvonne Gilmore of Cornel West Theory

Day Three

9 - 10:15 a.m.	Dr. Ronald L. Jackson III, Professor, African American Studies, Media and Cinema Studies Featured Workshop "Representations of Global Masculinity and Black Malehood" (Wexner Film and TV Theater)
10:30 - 12:00 p.m.	Sexualities and Feminisms (Ramseyer 200, Martha King Center) Roundtable Social Movements and Socially Conscious Songs (Arps 386)
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch (on own)
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.	Diasporic Experiences and Global Masculinities (Arps 002) Cosmopolitanism, Exile, and Social Movement (Arps 012)
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.	MC Lyte Keynote & Q&A (Wexner Film and TV Theater)
4:14 - 5:15 p.m.	Reception and Poster Session (Ramseyer College Commons)
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.	Concert featuring Special Hit Medley Performance by MC Lyte and Local Artists (Hitchcock Hall 131)