is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004). Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. A frequent commentator for National Public Radio Neal also contributes to several on-line media outlets, including SeeingBlack.com, The Root.com and theGrio.com.
The Longest Journey
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Via Postbourgie, we have Jimmy Bain convicted on child rape 35 years. DNA
says he didn't do it. 35 years in prison for raping a nine-year old, when
you di...
BRC's Grace Jones tribute -- Saturday, December 12
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First, this is a FREE show at the wonderful Brooklyn Museum. From the BRC
newsletter:In conjunction with the exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A
Photographi...
BENNY JOHNSON: VISIONS OF PARADISE
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*Benny Johnson: Visions of Paradise
I Just Got To Know
Give It Up
From Visions of Paradise (Today, 1973)*
Apologies for the slow down, between end-of-the-s...
Good Hair
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I must confess that I was skeptical initially of Chris Rock's attempt to do
a documentary. Nevertheless I believe the message is timely and one that is
nee...
A question of priorities
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*The Fed sprang into action when faced with the prospect of wrecked banks;
it doesn’t seem equally concerned about the prospect of wrecked lives.*
Bernan...
Five For Friday: After This, There Shall Be No More
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I cannot believe people are still talking about Tiger Woods. I cannot
believe I am still talking about Tiger Woods. I have not heard his name so
much in th...
Limbaugh: “the black frame of mind is terrible”
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Limbaugh = douche bag. LIMBAUGH: I got two more stories in the stack today
about how black unemployment is through the roof. Black unemployment is
terrible...
Lydia Lunch: Diva?
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Earlier this week, I went to Music Monday at the Drafthouse. This
week’s offering was David Bowie’s 1973 concert feature, Ziggy Stardust and
the Spiders Fr...
I’m not a fan…at least not of you
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Lots of people are too cool for Facebook. I can’t pretend I am. Once, I
met a woman, got her phone number, called her, and got no response. Hit her
up o...
Reflections written on the salty air of New England
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As I write this, I am sitting on a BoltBus from Boston truly floored at all
that I thought, seen and felt over the past 24 hours. To be honest, this
trip...
Ms. Badu...Now I Can Die In Peace!
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You guessed it...I met Erykah Badu in person tonight and she called me,
"Sidik"! She's coming out with a new album and yours truly gets to do the
bio again...
Asa G. Hilliard III | The State of African Education
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Few even have more than minimal control over their education institutions.
These institutions still mimic those of former colonial masters in most
cases. S...
Must Hear Beats and Mics Interview!
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TRUTH Minista Paul Scott addresses the Hee Haw Hip Hop controversy and
"Operation Dumb Down" on Beats and Mics.com
http://beatsandmics.com/MINISTER-PAULSCO...
Voluntary Foreclosure: Should I Walk Away?
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Why pay rent to the bank? Why pay property taxes on a home with no equity?
Does it make sense to pay a mortgage on a devalued home when I can rent a
home d...
Why publish "Obama's mama's book" at all?
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Why publish “Obama’s mama’s book” at all?
That’s probably one of the most dismissive and derogatory ways of phrasing a
question that at least a few anthrop...
Dec 11 Soul Sistas Juke Joint
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From Afros To Shelltoes always has luv for the sistas. Soul Sista's Juke
Joint gets our red kool aid stamp of approval. Expect soul-stirring
performances b...
Digitally United for a Day
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Two weeks ago, I challenged you to swap your daily blog habits, and I
promised that I’d report back. I did not get many responses, and the ones I
did recei...
On the Anniversary of President Obama's Win
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SNL delivers a hefty chuckle moment (a rare instance these days...Ha!) with
this send-up of Fox News assessment of Obama's year in the White House.
While w...
Brief Notes on Jazz Roots: A Larry Rosen Jazz Series
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Art & Seek
6 November 2009
Al Jarreau makes “adult contemporary” music. That’s not a problem, except
that Jarreau’s set at the Winspear Opera House on Wedn...
Petals - The Ja-Tun Project
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Does Obama shape black opinion? A survey experiment
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When Obama got elected a couple of researchers conducted an experiment to
see if Obama’s election would have any tangible effect on the racial
achievement ...
Farewell to The Kitchen Table
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Dearest Readers of *The Kitchen Table*,
I am officially retiring my place here at *TKT*.
Yolanda and I launched this blog nearly one year ago. In that t...
Be Advised
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My MacBook broke and the good folk at the Genius Bar had it, which is why I
stopped blogging. Thanks be to them (and valid AppleCare) I have a shiny
repair...
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