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Comedian Marsha Warfield: ‘Celebrating All of the Things I Am”
By Camille Jackson If Marsha Warfield could organize a dream comedy tour with anyone – dead or alive – who would she bring? “Not the dead ones. Five days on a tour bus – can you imagine?” said the Chicago-born comedian, who was in town for one night as a special guest for Prof. Mark […]
What Inspired A Death in Harlem?
Karla Holloway, the James B. Duke Emerita of English and professor of African & African American Studies and Law, describes what inspired her to write A Death in Harlem. In A Death in Harlem, Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance. Taking as her point of departure the tantalizingly […]
Kerry Haynie Elected Chair of Academic Council
From Duke Today: Kerry Haynie, associate professor of political science and African and African-American Studies, was elected the new chair of the Academic Council this past Thursday. Haynie will succeed current chair Don Taylor, who finishes his two-year term on July 1. Haynie defeated Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Professor of African and African-American […]
Black Joy As Resistance: Why I Do What I Do
Professor Yaba Blay, founder of #ProfessionalBlackGirl, will give a talk on Duke’s East Campus Monday evening. The talk, “Black Joy As Resistance: Why I Do What I Do,” will be held at 6 p.m., April 16th, in the Friedl Building’s Jameson Art Gallery. Filmmaker Natalie Bullock Brown and local independent artist Natasha Walker Powell will […]
Introduction to Black Code Studies: Wild Seed in the Machine
Excerpted from The Black Scholar, Vol. 47, Aug. 2017 By Jessica Marie Johnson and Mark Anthony Neal Black Code Studies is queer, femme, fugitive, and radical. As praxis and methodology, it waxes insurgent. It refutes conceptions of the digital that remove black diasporic people from engagement with technology, modernity, or the future. It centers black […]
New Duke Graduate Course: Hip Hop in the House of Hall
This fall, Professor Mark Anthony Neal will teach a new graduate course at Duke University – “Hip-Hop in the House of Hall: Critical Readings in Hip-Hop Studies.” The fall 2017 course will be held Mondays at 6:15 p.m. in Friedl 216. The course will examine the roots of the field of Hip-Hop Studies in […]
A Fireside Chat with Rakim
DCORE Co-Director to Interview Hip-Hop Legend During Art of Cool Festival By Micah English One of hip-hop’s most revered legends, the Long Island-born emcee “The God MC” Rakim Allah will be in Durham this weekend for the 4th annual Art of Cool music festival. Rakim will participate in a fireside chat on the impact and […]
Still Hidden?: Race + Gender and Invisibility in the STEM Fields
A Conversation About Access and Mentoring Noon April 19, 2017 Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall (Room 240) John Hope Franklin Center Free and open to the public. Light lunch served. Rochelle Newton, Ed.D. Senior Manager, IT Duke Law School and Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D. Professor African and African American Studies Duke University Women and people of […]
Neal To Deliver Inaugural Trinity Distinguished Lecture
My Mother Gave Me This Big-Ass Name: A Black Scholar in the Mix Professor Mark Anthony Neal 3:00 p.m., May 4, 2017 Penn Pavilion Reception immediately afterward Mark Anthony Neal holds appointments in the departments of African & African American Studies, and English. He is the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship […]
Author/activist/alumnus Neal to speak at Writers@Work residency
From Fredonia College: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, a Duke University faculty member, author and Fredonia alumnus, will explore activism and the use of social media during a two-day Writers@Work residency on Sunday and Monday, Feb. 19 and 20. Students will have numerous opportunities – a public talk, lecture/discussion session and writing workshop – to hear […]
