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Dionne Ford - Writer and Critic
Jun 24, 2026
40m 04s
Jarvis Givens - Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Jun 22, 2026
49m 29s
Khalisa Rae Thompson - Writer and Poet, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference
Jun 19, 2026
42m 23s
Robert J. Patterson - Department of Black Studies, Georgetown University
Jun 17, 2026
53m 25s
Shylah Hamilton-Touré - Program in Critical Ethnic Studies, California College of the Arts
Jun 15, 2026
38m 44s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 | ![]() Dionne Ford - Writer and Critic | This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with writer and critic Dionne Ford. In addition to a number of pieces in popular and writerly venues, she is co-editor with Jill Strauss of Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation (2019) and the author of Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing (2023). In this conversation, we discuss the role of study in creative writing, the place of memoir and storytelling in the study of Black life, and the intimacy and social significance of Black writing. | 40m 04s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 | ![]() Jarvis Givens - Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University | This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with Jarvis Givens, who teaches in the Departments of African and African American Studies and School of Education at Harvard University. Along with a number of essays in popular and academic venues, he is co-editor of "We Dare Say Love": Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys (2018) and author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (2021), School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness (2023), American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation (2025), and I'll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month (2026). In this conversation, we discuss the place of education and education writing in African American history, the culture and politics of Black study, and the imperative for Black Studies to impact community educational spaces. | 49m 29s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | ![]() Khalisa Rae Thompson - Writer and Poet, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference | This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with writer and poet Khalisa Rae Thompson, who is co-founder and co-director of Griot and Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference. Her writing has been featured in a number of literary and popular venues and she is the author of Real Girls Have Real Problems and of Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat. In this conversation, we discuss the intersection of writing and memory work, poetry and community connection, and the politics of publishing on Black life. | 42m 23s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | ![]() Robert J. Patterson - Department of Black Studies, Georgetown University | This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with Robert J. Patterson, who teaches in the Department of Black Studies at Georgetown University. Along with numerous scholarly essays in journals and edited collections, he is the author of Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality (2019) and Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture (2013), co-editor of The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture (2016), and editor of the award-winning Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights (2019). In this conversation, we discuss curriculum writing and Black Studies, historical research and Black study, and the place of cultural studies in the field. | 53m 25s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() Shylah Hamilton-Touré - Program in Critical Ethnic Studies, California College of the Arts | This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with Shylah Hamilton-Touré, who teaches in the Program in Critical Ethnic Studies at the California College of the Arts and is also Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Jambalaya Center for Ancient Mysteries and Sacred Arts. She is a writer and practicing artist whose work explores themes of gender, diaspora, and indigeneity through critical and visual practice. In this conversation, we explore the importance of surrealism for articulating the meaning of Black life, decolonial and indigenous resources for thinking blackness and liberation, and the place of art and expressive culture in Black Studies. | 38m 44s | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() W. Lawrence Hogue - Department of English, University of Houston✨ | Black Studiesliterary production+3 | W. Lawrence Hogue | University of HoustonDiscourse and the Other: The Production of the Afro-American Text+4 | — | Black StudiesW. Lawrence Hogue+3 | — | 54m 20s | |
| 6/10/26 | ![]() Laurian Bowles - Department of Anthropology, Davidson College✨ | Black StudiesAnthropology+4 | Laurian Bowles | Department of Anthropology, Davidson CollegeHeadstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra | GhanaAfrica | Black StudiesAnthropology+5 | — | 57m 12s | |
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Amanda Boston - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh✨ | Black Studiesurban studies+4 | Amanda Boston | Department of Africana StudiesUniversity of Pittsburgh | Brooklyn, New York | Black Studiesurban studies+5 | — | 38m 00s | |
| 6/5/26 | ![]() Skye Jackson - Writer and Poet✨ | Black Studiespoetry+4 | Skye Jackson | Xavier Universitya faster grave+1 | — | Skye Jacksonpoet+5 | — | 41m 29s | |
| 6/3/26 | ![]() Michele Prettyman - Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University✨ | Black Studiesmedia studies+4 | Michele Prettyman | Fordham Universityliquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies+2 | — | Black Studiesmedia studies+4 | — | 52m 17s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Andrea J. Queeley - Departments of Anthropology and Africa and African Diaspora Studies, Florida International University✨ | Black StudiesCaribbean history+3 | Andrea J. Queeley | Florida International UniversityRescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba+1 | — | Black StudiesCaribbean history+5 | — | 1h 05m 54s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Ronald Angelo Johnson - Department of History, Baylor University✨ | Black StudiesAmerican Revolution+3 | Ronald Angelo Johnson | Baylor UniversityEntangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution+2 | — | Black StudiesAmerican Revolution+5 | — | 1h 01m 25s | |
| 5/27/26 | ![]() Bettina Judd - Department of African American Studies, Emory University✨ | Black StudiesBlack feminist methods+3 | Bettina Judd | Department of African American Studies, Emory UniversityPatient+1 | — | Black StudiesBettina Judd+4 | — | 52m 07s | |
| 5/25/26 | ![]() Christel N. Temple - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh✨ | Black StudiesAfricana cultural memory studies+4 | Christel Temple | Department of Africana Studies, University of PittsburghLiterary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism+4 | — | Black StudiesAfricana Studies+5 | — | 59m 56s | |
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Kevin Rigby, Jr. - Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois✨ | Black Studiesafropessimist theory+3 | Kevin Rigby, Jr. | Department of African American StudiesUniversity of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign | Black Studiesafropessimism+5 | — | 1h 10m 30s | |
| 5/20/26 | ![]() Ifetayo Flannery - Department of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University✨ | Black StudiesAfricology+4 | Ifetayo Flannery | Department of Africology and African American StudiesTemple University+2 | — | Black StudiesAfricology+5 | — | 46m 57s | |
| 5/18/26 | ![]() Tanisha M. Jackson - Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University✨ | Black Studiescommunity art practice+4 | Tanisha M. Jackson | Department of African American Studies, Syracuse UniversityCommunity Folk Art Center+3 | — | Black Studiesart+5 | — | 44m 33s | |
| 5/15/26 | ![]() Robert Robinson - Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College✨ | Black StudiesAfricana Studies+5 | Robert P. Robinson | John Jay CollegeCUNY+2 | — | Black StudiesAfricana Studies+8 | — | 57m 56s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Melanie Holmes - Department of African American Studies, University of South Carolina✨ | Black StudiesAfrican American Studies+4 | Melanie Holmes | Department of African American Studies, University of South CarolinaJournal of African American History+1 | — | Black StudiesAfrican American Studies+5 | — | 54m 11s | |
| 5/11/26 | ![]() Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez - Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies and Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Hunter College✨ | Black StudiesAfro-Atlantic Literature+3 | Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez | Center for Puerto Rican StudiesDepartment of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies+3 | — | Black StudiesYomaira Figueroa-Vásquez+4 | — | 1h 02m 17s | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Desiree Cooper - Writer and Journalist✨ | Black Studiesjournalism+3 | Desiree Cooper | The New York TimesOprah Daily+9 | — | Desiree CooperBlack Studies+5 | — | 1h 01m 32s | |
| 5/6/26 | ![]() Michelle B. Taylor - Educator, Author, Advocate✨ | Black StudiesAfricology+4 | Michelle B. Taylor | Temple UniversityReclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets+2 | — | Black StudiesAfricology+5 | — | 55m 18s | |
| 5/4/26 | ![]() Joanna Cardenas - Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley✨ | Black Studiescritical carceral studies+5 | Joanna Cardenas | Department of African American and African Diaspora StudiesUniversity of California, Berkeley+5 | — | carceral studiesdisability studies+7 | — | 54m 24s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Justin Leroy - Department of History, Duke University✨ | Black StudiesAfrican American history+5 | Justin Leroy | Department of History, Duke UniversityThe Lowest Freedom | — | Black StudiesAfrican American history+5 | — | 1h 00m 06s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() Kaiama Glover - Department of Black Studies, Yale University✨ | Black StudiesCaribbean literature+4 | Kaiama L. Glover | Yale Universityarchipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis+6 | — | Black StudiesYale University+6 | — | 48m 47s | |
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