Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)

Chantal James @chantalalive.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:12 UTC

When me & @jl3001.bsky.social & my brother who's an abstract painter committed to make a zine about a song that's beloved for a lot of people in our community in hard times, we were acting in the tradition of writer Toni Cade Bambara as cultural workers to provide accessible culture for nourishment.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

"the real flourishing of Black studies that everybody thought might have been occurring in the 80s or thought might be occurring now, that it will occur when Black studies makes its move back from the university and back into our communities."--Fred Moten
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 14:20 UTC

"The governors of a dozen states – Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming – opted out of the program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:24 UTC

Anthony Nesty's role as U.S. Olympic men's swimming head coach is a 'vision' fulfilled

In 1992, Nesty became the first Black male swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics. His new role has him making history once again.
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:59 UTC

Tomi Adeyemi’s Books Are Fantasy. What They Taught Her Is Painfully Real.

With her new book, “Children of Anguish and Anarchy,” Adeyemi is wrapping up her best-selling Legacy of Orïsha series. The journey hasn’t been easy.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/b...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Library Heading to Senegal

Two decades after his death, a collection of over 800 works that the first president of Senegal owned is moving from France to Dakar
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/b...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:28 UTC

"I think [Henry] Dumas is speaking to us now, and so Dumas has been with me since as an undergraduate, and so he definitely was in the forethought of my mind to be a part of Start a Riot." -- Casarae L. Abdul-Ghani
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_NL...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:26 UTC

"Building on the work of predecessors like Gordon Parks and Dawoud Bey, Frazier has made it her mission to further revise the rules of social-documentary photography, which traditionally mandate keeping a measure of distance from one’s subjects."
www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

"The film’s charm is in its subjects’ un-media-trained intimacy. From the backseats of Eclipses and Accords, their ashtrays choked with roaches, you can hang out with Big or Method Man or spend studio time in L.A. with young Dr. Dre, Snoop, or Warren G."
www.vulture.com/article/bigg...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:24 UTC

Remembering the Late Faith Ringgold—the Black Feminist Artist Who Knew Who She Was | Aviva Dove-Viebahn | @msmagazine.bsky.social

A visionary Black feminist artist, activist and teacher, the late Faith Ringgold was never afraid of forging her own path
msmagazine.com/2024/07/03/f...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:28 UTC

“What does it mean to think of Black ephemera—random, inconsequential Blackness—as fugitive archival matter, as marooned archives?”

“The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

'The 1996 film is enjoying a welcome reissue this summer. Here, director Bridgett M. Davis and the Black Film Archive’s Maya Cade talk representation and artists going where the love is.'

In Naked Acts, a Black Actress Confronts Herself
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:30 UTC

"With viewership for women’s basketball at an all-time high, "Power of the Dream" — Amazon’s new documentary directed by Dawn Porter that highlights the WNBA’s fight for equity and representation — arrives at an apex moment."

www.npr.org/2024/07/01/n...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans’ Understanding of the Wilderness | @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

Esteban, York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:39 UTC

"Power of the Dream is a new documentary film about the empowering and unlikely true story of how a group of professional women's basketball players took on a WNBA team owner and rallied behind now-Senator Raphael Warnock."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tFo...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:57 UTC

Feasting from the Floodplain | Danielle Purifoy | @oxfordamerican.bsky.social

Growing community in East Tarboro, North Carolina
oxfordamerican.org/on-jubilee-a...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:21 UTC

Opinion: The other former president who used Trump’s playbook – and lost | Sean Jacobs
www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/o...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

What are the intersections between Ancient Greece and Africa and how does this shared history de-center the Transatlantic Slave Trade in a more expansive view of Blackness in the world?

Sarah F. Derbew discusses her book 'Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVXS...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 03:31 UTC

The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that the @nytimes.com never published, showing the people and the art that they created
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:45 UTC

“With those earliest days, where hip-hop was on the same platform as disco music, it’s Black, gay, queer, Latino folks, all in the same spaces, listening to the same 12-inch records,” @markanthonyneal.bsky.social tells Genius
genius.com/a/queer-repr...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:29 UTC

"But what is unique about the hip-hop industry is that its leaders feel the need to defend the genre that made them—to protect it and gate-keep it, even at the cost of sweeping violence under the rug. This, as a result, has interwoven gender-based oppression into its DNA."
time.com/6992188/hip-...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:24 UTC

Artist Cauleen Smith Wants to Change the Way You Think About the American West

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker and artist has unveiled her largest and most ambitious exhibition to date at the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo.
www.culturedmag.com/article/2024...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:16 UTC

"Two years ago, I saw oxtail moving in the same direction as matcha or kale and becoming really popular,” said the chef Osei Blackett, the owner of the Everything Oxtail stalls at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:19 UTC

When A Byrd Flew To North Carolina Central University

Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd pioneered jazz education programs at Historically Black Colleges.

BlackMusicMonth
www.ncarts.org/blog/2019/04...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 23:02 UTC

"It’s happening to the man who for the longest time seemed, to many, like the embodiment of unearned good fortune — in a word, privilege. He’s a talented performer, a gifted singer, a charming actor, sure. But his biggest talent may be for getting away clean."
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/22/o...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:17 UTC

"If Jazz was coming home from exile, as so many of the generations of Black expatriates eventually did, what was it coming home to? Death? Rebirth? Obscurity?"

#BlackMusicMonth
www.criterion.com/current/post...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 12:49 UTC

"it was Charles’ mash of Saturday night and Sunday morning idioms that became the soundtrack of Black resistance, on the one hand, and the ambient background to liberal moderation on the other. Charles became a legitimate icon in the process..."

#BlackMusicMonth
medium.com/@tnimixtape/...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

"For all the fearmongering around taxing the rich, fairly little is said of the ways white families have redistributed Black and Indigenous wealth for themselves."
lithub.com/land-theft-t...

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