PinnedMark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)“No Charge”: Shirley Caesar and a Black Mother’s Sonic Archive by Mark Anthony NealIn retrospect, I was enough of a smart-ass as a child that I might have been that little boy in Harlan Howard’s classic song “No Charge.”…Aug 131Aug 131
PinnedMark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)Raising Black Fathers: Black Men and the Shame of Absenteeism by Mark Anthony NealI am old enough to remember Ed OG and Da Bulldogs’ “Be a Father to Your Child” could be heard blaring on boom boxes outside. The…Jun 14Jun 14
Mark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)Maze featuring Frankie Beverly and the Meaning of Black Music by Mark Anthony NealAlmost twenty years ago, we’re at an amphitheater in Cary, North Carolina, a tony bedroom community south of Durham and west Raleigh. There…6d ago6d ago
Mark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)A Black Boy Mixtape by Mark Anthony NealBack in 2015 Mary J. Blige, Kerry Washington and Taraji P. Henson were featured in an Ava DuVernay directed commercial for a music…Sep 4Sep 4
Mark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)“Remember the Time”: Michael Jackson and the Chitlin’ Circuit by Mark Anthony NealIt’s a seemingly throwaway line from what is now remembered as the most successful single in the catalog of the Jackson 5, and one of the…Aug 29Aug 29
Mark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)The Syllabus: Michael Jackson, Prince & The Black Performance Tradition by Mark Anthony NealMichael Jackson, Prince & The Black Performance TraditionAug 25Aug 25
Mark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)“All in the Family”: Black Power Television and the Legacy of Soul! by Mark Anthony NealIt was a homecoming. Stokely Carmichael, now Kwame Touré, the charismatic Black Power leader, returned from his exile in Guinea, and took a…Aug 23Aug 23
Mark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)The Blackest Moses: The Hot-Buttered Soul of Isaac Hayes by Mark Anthony NealThat the career of Isaac Hayes could be neatly packaged into generationally specific references like Shaft, the Comedy Central animated…Aug 17Aug 17
Mark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)When Black Power Took Over the Olympic Games by Mark Anthony NealTo be sure it was a moment, made for this era; you could easily imagine millions of Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram posts of Tommie…Jul 26Jul 26
Mark Anthony Neal (T/X: @NewBlackMan)Black Noise: Thirty-Years of Hip-Hop Studies by Mark Anthony NealIt took generations for Jazz, one of America’s classic art forms, to be taken seriously in music schools and conservatories. Hip-Hop…Jul 22Jul 22