Lezli continues this five-episode theme with Dr. Panivong Norindr, author of Phantasmatic Indochina French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film, and Literature, as well as Samia Errazzouki, Ph.D. candidate examining early modern Northwest African history, prior to which she was Morocco-based journalist. The three explore how French Imperialism bound their countries’ histories and people to each other, the 1992 Academy Award-winning film Indochine serving as a “French Gone With The Wind”, The Myth of Tangier, snake charmers, and static fictional narratives that preserve a colonialist fantasy of these regions that have endured in tourism, novels, films, and culinary culture.

Relevant and Recommended Reads: 

• Morocco, From Coast to Desert
• Does a restaurant celebrating French colonialism belong in San Francisco?
• France is giving citizenship to the African soldiers who fought its wars over 50 years ago
• Indochine Style - Luxury Vietnam Tours

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The second of three volumes of “ON THE YARD” episodes inspired by the HOMECOMING HOLIDAY. Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘23, chat about the shifting of power in college athletics with Sports Editor of The Howard University Hilltop, Kira Grant; Howard University ‘21, and Sports Photojournalist for The Hampton Script, Trey Wilson, Hampton University ‘22. The four explore the civic engagement of Makur Maker, Mikey Williams and how the new generation of 15 and 16 yr-old athletes can impact the future of HBCUs and the Black community at large.

Relevant and Recommended Reads

• Black Lives Matter Protests Spawn Push for Athletes to Attend Historically Black Colleges
• 'It looks a lot like slavery': Black athletes share thoughts on playing for 'white entertainment'
• HBCUs Need Elite Athletes

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Lezli continues this five-episode theme on historical nostalgia and romanticizing colonialism with Prof. Anthony Szczesiul, author of The Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory. Why did Southern Living magazine make its debut at the height of the Civil Rights Movement? What does “southern hospitality” mean? Benevolence, graciousness, refinement? Mmm, it’s complicated. They explore the racist origins of the phrase, the historical context of its emergence, and why this “regional virtue” has become part of the United States' cultural memory and identity. FULL VIDEO EPISODE AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE.

Relevant and Recommended Reads: 

• The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson | History
• Civil War-Era Parallels to the Sanctuary City Movement
• These Brands Are Still Tapping Into Nostalgia for Slavery
• Why Black Americans Are Not Nostalgic for Route 66

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The first of three volumes of “ON THE YARD” episodes inspired by the HOMECOMING HOLIDAY. Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host  Zuri Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘21, chat cultural memory in the African-American community with Leila Sampson; Spelman College ‘21, whose family has been attending Spelman and Morehouse since the 1890s and Jada Thorne, Spelman College ‘21, who is a third-generation Oak Bluffs Family, a legacy started by her grandfather who was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. The four explore the traditions they hope remain for forthcoming generations, how Spelman and summering on Martha’s Vineyard empowered them respectively, and why they feel they must continue this legacy.

Relevant and Recommended Reads

• Memories of Homecoming at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Education Steeped in African American Culture: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• The Real Story of Black Martha's Vineyard
• The Green Book: The Black Travelers’ Guide to Jim Crow America

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Melania’s Hat, Plantation Weddings, and Indochic. Why do people long for a time period they’ve never experienced? Over the course of five episodes, IDE Impolite Conversation will explore romanticizing colonialism in popular culture. Lezli kicks off this theme with a conversation with Caitlin Faulkes, British-based psychologist specializing in nostalgia. She conducted one of the first pieces of empirical research on historical nostalgia and developed the first index to measure personality traits associated with historical nostalgia. FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE

Relevant and Recommended Reads: 

• It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump
• When Was America Great? The Answer Depends On Your Age
• Lindsey Graham, references ‘the good old days of segregation’ 

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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host  Zuri Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘21, chat with two Afro-Latina students, Maya Machado; Spelman College ‘21 and Zula Oliveira; Clark Atlanta University ‘23. They explore being held to a mestiza and European beauty esthetic, people not assuming they are not Latina because they are Black, being affirmed by Amara La Negra, the lightening and whitening of Reggaeton, and people forgetting it’s Afro-Panamanian roots. FULL VIDEO EPISODE ON YOUTUBE.

Relevant and Recommended Reads

• Inside Reggaeton’s Unsung Black History
• Hispanics with darker skin are more likely to experience discrimination than those with lighter skin
• 'We exist. We're here': Afro-Mexicans make the census after long struggle for recognition

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Lezli chats with Tanya Katerí Hernández, internationally recognized comparative race law expert and Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. The two explore the mythology of national identity over racial identity in Latin America, anti-Black customs that make anti-Black laws unnecessary, "boa aparência/good looking” as a job qualification, and how Hurricane Maria “outed” folks with 4A, B, and C hair. 

Relevant and Recommended Reads: 

• Racial Apartheid Persists in Latin America
• Race and Poverty in Latin America: Addressing the Development Needs of African Descendants
• Latinos Back Black Lives Matter Protests. They Want Change for Themselves, Too.

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It’s National Hispanic Heritage Month. Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘23, chat with two Afro-Latinx students, Leonard McReynolds; Morehouse College ‘23 and Liana Viaga; Florida A&M University ‘22. They explore the importance of people understanding the difference between ethnicity and race, that they aren’t Spanish, if they feel included in Latinidad, mestizo privilege, and why the use of the word Black needs to be more inclusive.

Relevant and Recommended Reads

• Details of Brutal First Slave Voyages Discovered
• When it Comes to Latinidad, Who Is Included and Who Isn't?
• The Dominican Republic Erased Birthright Citizenship

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It’s National Hispanic Heritage Month! We’re kicking it off with some Impolite Conversation! Lezli chats with Dr. Katie L. Acosta, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University. They explore historical periods of whitening in Latin America (mejorar la raza/"improve the race"), who isn’t included in Latinidad, Zoe Saldana, the policing of Blackness, and what gets lost in translation.

Relevant and Recommended Reads: 

• Details of Brutal First Slave Voyages Discovered
• When it Comes to Latinidad, Who Is Included and Who Isn't?
• The Dominican Republic Erased Birthright Citizenship

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For this live-streamed event, Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Zuri Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘21, chat with two SGA Presidents students, Alanna Gaskin; Prairie View A&M University ‘21 and Xavier McClinton; Florida A&M University ‘21, as well as Andrea Hailey CEO of Vote.org about some of the unprecedented voting-related obstacles facing college students this election season, digital voter suppression, the national poll worker shortage crisis, data from the 2020 mid-terms regarding the percentage of rejected mail-in/absentee ballots of college students, and exact solutions on how to ensure your vote is counted this election season. 

Relevant and Recommended Reads

• The New Voter Suppression
• Prairie View A&M students sue Texas county, allege voter suppression of Black citizens
• Empty US college campuses are making it harder for students to vote
• Where the youth vote could matter most in 2020

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• Call the Election Protection Hotline 1-866-687-8683

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