With summer coming to an end, we thought it would be a great time to have one of our favorite guests, Dr. David Leonard, on the show.
David J. Leonard is associate professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman. With a B.A. in Black studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master’s and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, he has dedicated his career to interdisciplinary scholarship, transformative teaching, and research that underscores the continued significance of race within popular culture, the structures of politics, and society at large.
He is the author of Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema and co-editor of Criminalized and Commodified: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports (Rowman and Littlefield). He is author of the just released After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness (SUNY Press) as well as several other works. Leonard is a regular contributor to NewBlackMan, layupline, Feminist Wire, and Urban Cusp. He is a past contributor to Ebony, Slam, and Racialicious as well as a past contributor to Loop21, The Nation, and The Starting Five. He blogs at No Tsuris. Follow him on Twitter @drdavidjleonard.
Live tonight at 6:30 p.m. EST/3:30 p.m. PST, David will speaking about various subjects including the Aurora, Colorado shooting in which 18 people were killed and police violence.
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