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Neal Interviews Wu Tang Member GZA during Moogfest

Rapper GZA, a member of the famed hip hop group Wu Tang Clan, would talk about the business of hip hop with fellow founding member RZA, but often their conversations would take a turn by the end. “We would end up talking about the weight of an atom,” GZA told an audience of festival attendees […]

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Time Traveling With Hip-Hop

For a moment, imagine a little girl in the American South, watching her uncles — mid-20th century blues men, with harmonicas, guitars, bottles, standing in the round, telling their stories. And then suddenly a flash of the spirit, what Robert Farris Thompson, might describe as a rupture in the space, time, rhythm continuum, and that […]

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Mentoring Black Students in the Sciences

Here, Mark Anthony Neal interviews Dean Valerie Ashby of Duke’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences about her career path from chemistry to becoming one of Duke’s senior level academic administrators.

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