In The News: Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
The protests around the country have been about excessive force and deaths of black men at the hands of police. 8 News Now鈥檚 John Langeler spoke with 性视界传媒 Assistant Professor of African American studies Dr. Tyler D. Parry about why George Floyd鈥檚 death is the one that sparked this call.
The white policeman stands in the center of the photograph, the German shepherd鈥檚 leash wound loosely around his left hand. With the right, the officer is reaching out to grab the cardigan of the young black protester, drawing him closer to the dog snapping viciously at his waist. The teenager鈥檚 eyes are cast down, a living symbol of nonviolence, his knee thrust forward as if to block the attack. Behind him on the street, other African Americans look on with alarm.
How comfortable are you talking about porn? Does it make you embarrassed? Ashamed? If you knew more about how porn is made, and how to navigate your own exploration of pleasure, would you still blush at the mention of it?
Even Beyonc茅 is rapping about OnlyFans.
With many businesses across the country closed due to the covid-19 pandemic, a national conversation is taking place about industries and workers hit especially hard by work stoppages and how to help them.
鈥淒o you think pubic hair is gonna be back in style after quarantine?鈥 is a text message I recently received from a man I went on a few dates with shortly before going out on dates with people stopped being a thing.
It鈥檚 almost shocking to see sex that is supposed to be more appealing.
Like business operators throughout the Las Vegas Valley, Jason Mohney is trying to figure out how to support his employees amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
When Governor Steve Sisolak ordered all nonessential businesses to close in order to slow down the COVID-19 outbreak last month, he specifically mentioned Nevada鈥檚 brothels and strip clubs.
In this episode of The Jack Dappa Blues Radio Podcast, I speak to co-authors Dr. Tyler D. Parry and Dr. Chaz Yingling about their book in the works Slave Hounds, Abolition and The Americas.
Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a 鈥淣ew Books in African American Studies Roundtable鈥 to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent transitions from graduate school into the professorate, and some of the scholarly and public projects they are developing at their respective institutions.
D.C. is growing wealthier and whiter every year. Is a conspiracy theory to blame?
