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Blackademics 3rd Annual Review - Raphael Saadiq, Keli Goff, Chuck Stone and MORE!!!
Published on 16 Aug 2009 at 1:48 pm.
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Though the Blackademics educational workshop series started in 2004, this blog only was not up and running until the summer of 2006. I had just earned my bachelors that May, and by June Deen Black published our first post. We started blogging regularly in July, and on August 15th I published the first Blackademics interview […]
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July 2009 Interview - Founding Member of the Black Panthers, Sam Anderson
Published on 14 Jul 2009 at 9:21 pm.
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It is my distinct pleasure to announce this month’s Blackadeimcs interviewee, Professor Sam Anderson - the author of The Black Holocaust for Beginners. I met Mr. Anderson while I was at Syracuse, when he came to deliver a riveting lecture on Black self-determination. This interview captures some of our conversation, following the lecture. We chop […]
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June 2009 Blackadeimcs Interview: Internationally renown Ghanaian recording artist, Samini
Published on 15 Jun 2009 at 9:05 pm.
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Blackademics is celebrating Black Music month by publishing a groundbreaking interview with Ghanaian Hiplife and Hip Hop artist, Samini. Strait from his studio in Accra we discuss Hip-Hop, language and Black identity from an international perspective. You don’t want to miss this interview! Check out a youtube video of the interview below, or click this […]
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May Interview, CHUCK STONE!!!
Published on 15 May 2009 at 1:16 am.
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This May, the one and only Chuck Stone is in the building! We talk about the power of media, with one of the most influential journalists of all time. You don’t want to miss this interview. Listen to an Mp3 of the interview the interview here. Read the transcript here.
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April 2009 Blackademics Interview: The Late Dr. John Hope Franklin
Published on 15 Apr 2009 at 10:38 pm.
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This month’s interview is dedicated to the memory of one of the world’s greatest historians. As promised, today’s interview is a rebroadcast of our very first Blackademics interview - Dr. John Hope Franklin. The interview was originally published on August 15th, 2006. Dr. Franklin joined the ancestors on March 25, 2009. May he rest in […]
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March Interview: Negro League Hall of Fame Pitcher - Durham’s own Willie Bradshaw!!!
Published on 15 Mar 2009 at 11:59 pm.
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This month’s interview is with North Carolina legend and Hall of Famer, Willie Bradshaw. He talks about sharing the field with the great Satchel Paige, enduring racism and what it was like to play America’s favorite pass time in the segregated south. Blackadeimcs - this is a very special interview, please take heed to the […]
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February 2009 Interview: Dr. Georgiary Bledsoe, founder of the Boston Urban Music Project
Published on 15 Feb 2009 at 3:22 pm.
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This year’s Black History Month interview is with Dr. Georgiary Bledsoe, the president and founder of BUMP - the Boston Urban Music Project. We discuss the importance of incorporating Black music into the curricula of Black youth, as well as the validity of Hip-Hop education programs such as the (Blackademcics Hip-Hop Community workshop series). Listen […]
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January 2009 Interview and Transcript w/ Dr. Clarence Lusane
Published on 15 Jan 2009 at 12:41 am.
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This month we’ve got an awesome interview with political guru Dr. Clarence Lusane. While the world awaits President-elect Barack Obama’s historic inauguration in five days, Dr. Lusane and I discuss two other African American political powerhouses: Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell. Lusane is the author of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race and […]
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December Interview w/ The Legendary Raphael Saadiq
Published on 15 Dec 2008 at 2:49 am.
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This month’s interview is with artistic genius Raphael Saadiq, who was in Durham performing alongside John Legend this week. I joined him after the show for a night of drinks, club hopping and salsa dancing in the Bull City. This interview takes place at about 2:30 am in my car, so please excuse the poor […]
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November 2008 Interview w/ Keli Goff
Published on 15 Nov 2008 at 3:15 am.
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This month’s interview is with journalist, blogger and political analyst Keli Goff (check her out at her website: keligoff.com). We talk politics - discussing everything from the controversial proposition 8 gay marriage referendum, to the Republican Party’s current identity crisis. Listen to the interview here. Read the transcript here.
