Our World with Black Enterprise | May 29, 2011
Host Marc Lamont Hill Talks with Activist & Scholar Angela Davis
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Our World with Marc Lamont Hill: Love & Relationships
Our World with Marc Lamont Hill | Black Enterprise
Love & Relationships featuring Mona Scott Young, Jimmy Briggs, and Esther Armah.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Our World with Marc Lamont Hill: Gender Justice
Marc Lamont Hill is joined by Salamishah Tillet, Byron Hurt and Akiba Solomon.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Barbershop Health Outreach on 'Our World' with Marc Lamont Hill
Marc Lamont Hill - Our World with Black Enterprise - Black Barbershop Health Outreach Foundation
Monday, December 6, 2010
'Left of Black': Episode #12 featuring Marc Lamont Hill and Salamishah Tillet
Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal discusses the crisis of Black Males and schooling, the de-skilling of the American Work-force and Social Media with Columbia University Professor Marc Lamont Hill. Neal is also joined by University of Pennsylvania Professor Salamishah Tillet as they discuss the career of Kanye West, the impact of Nicki Minaj and definitions of musical genius.
→Marc Lamont Hill is Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University. A regular contributor to Fox News and CNN, Hill is the author of Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity.
→Salamishah Tillet is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the forthcoming Peculiar Memories: Slavery and the Post-Civil Rights Imagination (Duke University Press). Tillet is also Founder of A Long Walk Home, a non-profit organization and a regular contributor to The Root.com.
→Marc Lamont Hill is Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University. A regular contributor to Fox News and CNN, Hill is the author of Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity.
→Salamishah Tillet is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the forthcoming Peculiar Memories: Slavery and the Post-Civil Rights Imagination (Duke University Press). Tillet is also Founder of A Long Walk Home, a non-profit organization and a regular contributor to The Root.com.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Marc Lamont Hill on Racial Profiling in Airports
HLN's Joy Behar talks with Muslim-American Asra Nomani, who favors U.S. airports using racial and religious profiling. Columbia University Professor Marc Lamont Hill responds.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
New Episode of 'Our World with Black Enterprise'
Host and Columbia University Professor Marc Lamont Hill is joined by Keith Boykin, David Webb, and Arva Rice in conversation about the Mid-term Elections
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
'Down Low' Politics, the Politics of 'Down Low'
Only Black men have their sexual practices policed and framed in pathological terms.
Down Low discourse is a matter of race and public health
by Marc Lamont Hill | TheLoop21.com
A few weeks ago, comedians DL Hughley and Sherri Shepherd came under fire for comments that they made on an episode of The View. While discussing the FDA’s ban on blood donation for gays and bisexual men, the two matter-of-factly mentioned that HIV was prevalent in the Black community because of the “Down Low,” or the sexual practices of bisexual men who identify to their partners (and themselves) as heterosexual. The comments sparked firestorm from gay advocacy and public health organizations, both of which rightly regarded the comments as bigoted and untrue.
My interest is not in criticizing Hughley and Shepherd, whose comments merely echoed the sentiments of many people in the Black community. Rather, my frustration is with the very notion of the Down Low, which rests upon a set of problematic assumptions and dangerous claims that undermine the physical and mental health of the community.
Despite what countless magazines, news outlets, and everyday people have reported as “fact,” there is no evidence that Down Low men are responsible for the spike in the HIV infection rates of African American women. To the contrary, according to the US Centers for Disease Control, high-risk heterosexual sex and injection drug use are actually the leading causes of infection for Black women. In fact, according to experts, incidents of female infection from bisexual male partners are relatively low. While more research needs to be done—particularly studies that deploy more complex methodologies for tracking the sexual practices and identities of bisexual men who don’t identify as such—there is absolutely no scientific basis for blaming HIV infection on DL men.
In addition to being empirically baseless, the current Down Low panic follows a long and deep history of framing Black males as immoral, diseased, and dangerous. Do “DL brothers” really exist? Of course. But they exist among every race and culture throughout history. (For evidence of this, check out the critically acclaimed movie Brokeback Mountain, which tells the story of a secret gay romance between two men in the American west from 1963 to 1983. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the film was not referred to as a “DL movie.”) Despite this reality, only Black men seem to have their sexual practices policed and framed in pathological terms.
Read the Full Essay @ theloop21
Down Low discourse is a matter of race and public health
by Marc Lamont Hill | TheLoop21.com
A few weeks ago, comedians DL Hughley and Sherri Shepherd came under fire for comments that they made on an episode of The View. While discussing the FDA’s ban on blood donation for gays and bisexual men, the two matter-of-factly mentioned that HIV was prevalent in the Black community because of the “Down Low,” or the sexual practices of bisexual men who identify to their partners (and themselves) as heterosexual. The comments sparked firestorm from gay advocacy and public health organizations, both of which rightly regarded the comments as bigoted and untrue.
My interest is not in criticizing Hughley and Shepherd, whose comments merely echoed the sentiments of many people in the Black community. Rather, my frustration is with the very notion of the Down Low, which rests upon a set of problematic assumptions and dangerous claims that undermine the physical and mental health of the community.
Despite what countless magazines, news outlets, and everyday people have reported as “fact,” there is no evidence that Down Low men are responsible for the spike in the HIV infection rates of African American women. To the contrary, according to the US Centers for Disease Control, high-risk heterosexual sex and injection drug use are actually the leading causes of infection for Black women. In fact, according to experts, incidents of female infection from bisexual male partners are relatively low. While more research needs to be done—particularly studies that deploy more complex methodologies for tracking the sexual practices and identities of bisexual men who don’t identify as such—there is absolutely no scientific basis for blaming HIV infection on DL men.
In addition to being empirically baseless, the current Down Low panic follows a long and deep history of framing Black males as immoral, diseased, and dangerous. Do “DL brothers” really exist? Of course. But they exist among every race and culture throughout history. (For evidence of this, check out the critically acclaimed movie Brokeback Mountain, which tells the story of a secret gay romance between two men in the American west from 1963 to 1983. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the film was not referred to as a “DL movie.”) Despite this reality, only Black men seem to have their sexual practices policed and framed in pathological terms.
Read the Full Essay @ theloop21
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Marc Lamont Hill on Gun Control
There's Danger in Disarming Black Communities
by Marc Lamont Hill
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a major decision. In a 5-4 ruling, the high court determined that the Second Amendment applies to the ability of state and local authorities to regulate gun laws. Although the decision promises to impact all sectors of the country, it will have its most immediate and direct effect on Black communities, which have the most rigid and repressive gun restrictions in the nation.
As someone deeply concerned with violence prevention, it is tempting to echo the angry sentiments of mainstream American liberals, who regard the latest decision as a major step backward. For them, gun ownership is an expendable rather than inalienable right, one that is worth ceding in exchange for a more peaceful society. While I sympathize with such a desire, I find the cost of the ticket too high.
As citizens of the United States, we live in a nation founded on revolutionary violence and sustained through a range of violent practices. It was this belief in the redemptive possibilities of violence that informed the creation of the Second Amendment, which allows citizens to keep and bear arms to prevent the creation of an unjust, anti-democratic, or outright tyrannical government. In other words, American democracy is underwritten by the possibility that everyday citizens can fight back if the government no longer acts in the interest of freedom and justice. For Blacks, who have never received the full protection of the State, such a right must be viewed as an indispensable nonnegotiable component of complete citizenship.
Despite (or perhaps because of) its romantic cultural obsession with guns, the United States government has gone to great lengths to disarm Black bodies. From the pre-Civil War “Slave Codes” that explicitly prohibited Blacks from possessing firearms, to exorbitant post-war gun tariffs that priced Blacks (and poor whites) out of the gun market, the State has always attempted to take guns out of the hands of Black citizens. Such conditions rendered Blacks even more vulnerable to state sponsored forms of terrorism, abuse, and exploitation.
Read the Full Essay @ theloop21.com
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Marc Lamont Hill is Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University. He blogs regularly at MarcLamontHill.com. He can be reached at marc@theloop21.com.
by Marc Lamont Hill
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a major decision. In a 5-4 ruling, the high court determined that the Second Amendment applies to the ability of state and local authorities to regulate gun laws. Although the decision promises to impact all sectors of the country, it will have its most immediate and direct effect on Black communities, which have the most rigid and repressive gun restrictions in the nation.
As someone deeply concerned with violence prevention, it is tempting to echo the angry sentiments of mainstream American liberals, who regard the latest decision as a major step backward. For them, gun ownership is an expendable rather than inalienable right, one that is worth ceding in exchange for a more peaceful society. While I sympathize with such a desire, I find the cost of the ticket too high.
As citizens of the United States, we live in a nation founded on revolutionary violence and sustained through a range of violent practices. It was this belief in the redemptive possibilities of violence that informed the creation of the Second Amendment, which allows citizens to keep and bear arms to prevent the creation of an unjust, anti-democratic, or outright tyrannical government. In other words, American democracy is underwritten by the possibility that everyday citizens can fight back if the government no longer acts in the interest of freedom and justice. For Blacks, who have never received the full protection of the State, such a right must be viewed as an indispensable nonnegotiable component of complete citizenship.
Despite (or perhaps because of) its romantic cultural obsession with guns, the United States government has gone to great lengths to disarm Black bodies. From the pre-Civil War “Slave Codes” that explicitly prohibited Blacks from possessing firearms, to exorbitant post-war gun tariffs that priced Blacks (and poor whites) out of the gun market, the State has always attempted to take guns out of the hands of Black citizens. Such conditions rendered Blacks even more vulnerable to state sponsored forms of terrorism, abuse, and exploitation.
Read the Full Essay @ theloop21.com
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Marc Lamont Hill is Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University. He blogs regularly at MarcLamontHill.com. He can be reached at marc@theloop21.com.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Do We REALLY Want A New Kind of Black Man?
Do We REALLY Want A New Kind of Black Man?
by phillisremastered
Tonight, I listened to an extraordinary podcast on Black Male Privilege featuring a round table with brother-scholars R. L’Heureux Lewis, Marc Lamont Hill, Byron Hurt, and Mark Anthony Neal.
I am not playing when I say “extraordinary.” Frankly, I’ve been waiting for the last 25 years for a group of Black men to challenge other Black men on their privilege in the community—and really meant it. What was so wonderful about this forum is that none of the men expected a pat on the head for having a public conversation that Black women have been having for several decades, in public and private.
These brothers also shared their difficulties about confronting Black Male Privilege in their own lives and in their families. For example, documentary filmmaker Byron Hurt talks about when he and his wife had their first baby, a little girl, they quickly moved into traditional male and female gender roles, much to his concern.
Hurt said that he became aware of how much more mobility he had than his wife, because she was breastfeeding their daughter. He could come and go if he wanted, while his wife could not. He said he had to really make sure that he was spending just as much time with their baby, and to keep track of whether his personal behavior was in sync with his public proclamations of gender equity.
Read the Full Essay @ Phillis Remastered
by phillisremastered
Tonight, I listened to an extraordinary podcast on Black Male Privilege featuring a round table with brother-scholars R. L’Heureux Lewis, Marc Lamont Hill, Byron Hurt, and Mark Anthony Neal.
I am not playing when I say “extraordinary.” Frankly, I’ve been waiting for the last 25 years for a group of Black men to challenge other Black men on their privilege in the community—and really meant it. What was so wonderful about this forum is that none of the men expected a pat on the head for having a public conversation that Black women have been having for several decades, in public and private.
These brothers also shared their difficulties about confronting Black Male Privilege in their own lives and in their families. For example, documentary filmmaker Byron Hurt talks about when he and his wife had their first baby, a little girl, they quickly moved into traditional male and female gender roles, much to his concern.
Hurt said that he became aware of how much more mobility he had than his wife, because she was breastfeeding their daughter. He could come and go if he wanted, while his wife could not. He said he had to really make sure that he was spending just as much time with their baby, and to keep track of whether his personal behavior was in sync with his public proclamations of gender equity.
Read the Full Essay @ Phillis Remastered
Friday, May 14, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Trouble Man: Black Male Privilege?--A Forum
The Brecht Forum
Monday May 17, 2010 @ 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by Centric Productions
Trouble Man:Black, Male Privilege
A Contradiction? An Illusion? A Reality?
Byron Hurt
L'Hereux Lewis
Marc Lamont Hill
Mark Anthony Neal
Esther Amrah (Moderator)
This panel is part of Esther Armah's New Monthly Live Interactive Emotional Justice Conversation Series -Afrolicious
Black men are in crisis. Prison, schools, racism, brutality. But, what about black male privilege? What does it look like? How do we define it? How and who does it hurt or help? How does it inform our relationships? Is it our silent reality: undiscussed, unspoken, unrevealed? Byron Hurt, Marc Lamont Hill, Mark Anthony Neal, L'Heureux Lewis take on black male privilege and break it down.
*Esther Armah (Moderator): International Award winning Journalist, Radio Host of Wake Up Call and Off the Page WBAI 99.5 FM, Playwright
*Marc Lamont Hill, Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and Author of Beats, Rhymes and Classroom Life
*Byron Hurt, Award winning filmmaker, Hip Hop Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Barack&Curtis, and Soul Food Junkies, anti sexism activist, Essayist
*R.L. Heureux Lewis, Assistant Professor Sociology and Black Studies at the City College of New York
*Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture at Duke University and Author of New Black Man
The Brecht Forum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 242-4201
Monday May 17, 2010 @ 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by Centric Productions
Trouble Man:Black, Male Privilege
A Contradiction? An Illusion? A Reality?
Byron Hurt
L'Hereux Lewis
Marc Lamont Hill
Mark Anthony Neal
Esther Amrah (Moderator)
This panel is part of Esther Armah's New Monthly Live Interactive Emotional Justice Conversation Series -Afrolicious
Black men are in crisis. Prison, schools, racism, brutality. But, what about black male privilege? What does it look like? How do we define it? How and who does it hurt or help? How does it inform our relationships? Is it our silent reality: undiscussed, unspoken, unrevealed? Byron Hurt, Marc Lamont Hill, Mark Anthony Neal, L'Heureux Lewis take on black male privilege and break it down.
*Esther Armah (Moderator): International Award winning Journalist, Radio Host of Wake Up Call and Off the Page WBAI 99.5 FM, Playwright
*Marc Lamont Hill, Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and Author of Beats, Rhymes and Classroom Life
*Byron Hurt, Award winning filmmaker, Hip Hop Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Barack&Curtis, and Soul Food Junkies, anti sexism activist, Essayist
*R.L. Heureux Lewis, Assistant Professor Sociology and Black Studies at the City College of New York
*Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture at Duke University and Author of New Black Man
The Brecht Forum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 242-4201
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