Join
LEFT OF BLACK Host and Duke University Professor
Mark Anthony Neal for a live taping of Left of Black, Monday December 13, 2010 at 7:00pm, featuring author and activist,
Zelda Lockhart, composer
T.J. Anderson, Queer media activist and writer
Alexis Pauline Gumbs and pastor and novelist
Carl Kenney.
Zelda Lockhart is the author of the recently published
Fifth Born II: The One Hundredth Turtle, a sequel to her first novel
Fifth Born and
Cold Running Creek. As the 2010 Piedmont Laureate, Lockhart has been instrumental in raising HIV/AIDS awareness in Black communities.
T.J. Anderson is one of the leading composers of his generation. Born in 1928 Anderson received a Ph.D in Composition from the University of Iowa. After serving as Chairman of the Department of Music at Tufts University for eight years, Thomas Jefferson Anderson became Austin Fletcher Professor of Music and in 1990 became Austin Fletcher Professor of Music Emeritus. He now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he devotes full time to writing music.
A Self-Described "Queer Black Trouble Maker" Alexis Pauline Gumbs holds a Ph.D. from Duke University and is the founder of Broken Beautiuful Press. Gumbs is also editor of the blog
Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind.
Pastor Carl Kenney is the founding Pastor of Compassion Ministries in Durham, NC and former pastor at Orange Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Durham, NC, Kenney is also the author of
Preacha Man and the just published sequel
Backslide.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
