Mark Neal
Blogger at The New Black Magazine
Aggregator of Black Culture. Boosting Blackademia since '99. Feminist. BX-born. Prof & Chair of @DukeAAAS. Author #BlackEphemera (2022) ΦΒΣ @BullCitySigmas
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1 week ago |
levelman.com | Mark Neal
In far too many minds, Jackie Robinson - a legitimate national hero - is the direct antithesis of contemporary professional sports figures. Whether they are discussed on Sports radio broadcasts or hosting their own podcasts, contemporary athletes - in this era of athlete empowerment - are invariably described as selfish, money hungry, and inaccessible. While such descriptions are used to depict many professional athletes, when applied to Black athletes, it takes on added animus.
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3 weeks ago |
levelman.com | Mark Anthony Neal |Mark Neal
In his classic study, psychologist Richard Majors (with Janet Mancini Billson) writes, "Cool Pose is a distinctive coping mechanism that serves to counter, at least in part, the dangers that black males encounter on a daily basis." As Majors notes "Cool pose...exacts a stiff price in repressed feelings and suppressed energy." There is, perhaps, no better example of the stakes of "keeping cool" than the case of Nat King Cole, who at the pinnacle of his career in the 1950s was a most visible...
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2 months ago |
levelman.com | Mark Neal
When The Edwin Hawkins singers logged a major crossover hit with " Oh Happy Day" in 1969, they could point to artists like Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke, as well as Mahalia Jackson's historic appearance at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival, as laying the groundwork for their success.
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Dec 11, 2024 |
levelman.com | Mark Neal
Truth is On Its Way is just a reminder of how evident Giovanni's vision and genius was, from the very beginning "The church is a great archive of Black music." - Nikki Giovanni Amiri Baraka once wrote that Black music, "to retain its freshness, its originality, its specific expression of its own history and contemporary reality in each generation creates a 'new music'." This was yet another articulation of what Baraka once called the "changing same" - the thing that links Black expressive...
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Nov 30, 2024 |
levelman.com | Mark Neal
The top selling album of all time continues to age beautifully but Michael Jackson never got an opportunity to appreciate his otherworldly accomplishmentMichael Jackson was fifteen years into a professional singing career when was released on November 30, 1982, but nearly a decade past his peak years as the boy lead singer of his family group, The Jackson Five.
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