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directing her first music video for THEESatisfaction and her collaboration with Jay Z on Decoded (2010) and the unpublished The Black Book.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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