AUDIO: Zora Neale Hurston’s Story of the Last Slave Ship Survivor – SoundCloud

With Cheryl Sterling, Deborah Plant, Glory Edim, and Sylviane Diouf: "Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” is one of Zora Neale Hurston’s most important works of non-fiction that has never been published until today. Hurston recorded the story in Alabama in the late 1920s. It's a collection of interviews with a man named … Continue reading AUDIO: Zora Neale Hurston’s Story of the Last Slave Ship Survivor – SoundCloud

BLOGROLL/AUDIO: Kelley on Finding Ways to be One: The making of Cedric J. Robinson’s radical Black politics

Robin D. G. Kelley on Black Marxism: "Historian Robin D.G. Kelley explores the radical Black politics of scholar Cedric J. Robinson -- from his historical understanding of race and capitalism an inherently inseparable systems, to his vision of the possibilities of politics, rooted deep in struggles past and present - setting the groundwork for new … Continue reading BLOGROLL/AUDIO: Kelley on Finding Ways to be One: The making of Cedric J. Robinson’s radical Black politics

AUDIO: Johnson and Jones on #BlackWomanhood | WYPR

Jessica Marie Johnson and Martha Jones discuss their Black Womanhood course on WYPR: The course is co-taught by Professor Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, and Professor of History, at Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Professor Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor in the Center for Africana … Continue reading AUDIO: Johnson and Jones on #BlackWomanhood | WYPR

AUDIO: Fuentes on Colonial Port Cities and Slavery | Ben Franklin’s World

Marisa Fuentes discusses Barbados, port cities, and slavery with Liz Covart on the podcast Ben Franklin's World: "The histories of early North America and the Caribbean are intimately intertwined. The same European empires we encounter in our study of early America also appear in the Caribbean and the colonies in these respective empires often traded … Continue reading AUDIO: Fuentes on Colonial Port Cities and Slavery | Ben Franklin’s World

AUDIO: LeFlouria on How the convict labor of Black women built the new South

Historian Talitha LeFlouria examines the incarcerated labor of Black women in Reconstruction-era Georgia - work that rebuilt the South's infrastructure and industrial economy under brutal conditions, enabled by the social language and legal mechanisms around Black lives that persist in America's modern mass incarceration complex.   Source: This Is Hell! | Everywhere yet nowhere: How … Continue reading AUDIO: LeFlouria on How the convict labor of Black women built the new South

AUDIO: Still Processing: ‘Confederate,’ ‘Detroit’ and Who Owns Stories About Blackness – The New York Times

Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris discuss the proposed HBO drama Confederate and more on 'Still Processing:' "What do the producers of “Game of Thrones,” Kathryn Bigelow and the painter Dana Schutz have in common? Each was recently at the center of a roiling controversy about what it means for white artists to make work about … Continue reading AUDIO: Still Processing: ‘Confederate,’ ‘Detroit’ and Who Owns Stories About Blackness – The New York Times

AUDIO: Martha Jones on “Who was Roger Taney?” | WYPR

Martha Jones and scholars discuss Roger Taney's legacy on WYPR: "One of his earliest decisions as the attorney general of the United States … turns on whether or not free African Americans are citizens because there's a question about whether or not they can obtain federal licenses to pilot boats along the coastal waters of the … Continue reading AUDIO: Martha Jones on “Who was Roger Taney?” | WYPR

AUDIO: Never Monument to Hurt You by The Rise of Charm City | @SoundCloud

In the middle of an August night, the City of Baltimore removed four Confederate monuments from parks and public squares. A few people bore witness, and almost everyone in town had an opinion. In this bonus mini-episode, we talk to a few of them, not just about the statues but also about the quiet removal … Continue reading AUDIO: Never Monument to Hurt You by The Rise of Charm City | @SoundCloud