The Last Dope Intellectual (LDI) is an unapologetically radical Black web show hosted by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown and produced by Too Black. LDI covers a wide range of topics, including politics, current events, social media discourse, and knowledge production. The show is divided into a variety of segments, from “Shoot the Shit,” which features Dr. CBS and Dr. Brown discussing whatever is top of mind for them, to “History of the Present,” where the hosts discuss a Black radical quote and its relevance to the present, to “What I’m On,” in which the doctors discuss writing or research in progress and the accompanying struggles, issues, and accomplishments. #LDI also features interviews, book reviews, and opportunities for viewers to get advice from Dr. CBS and Dr. Brown. Be sure to tap in!
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The Black Pacific w/ Dr. Quito Swan
Even during our mid-season winter break we’re bringing the heat for a very special episode of the the Last Dope Intellectual with Dr. Quito Swan speaking about the Black Pacific! Support our Patreon!
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Bio: Quito Swan is Professor of African American and African Diaspora at Indiana University Bloomington. An award-winning historian of Black internationalism, Black Power, and the Black Pacific, he is a scholar of race, public policy, and the African Diaspora. He is the author of three major monographs, Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida, 2020), and the forthcoming Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anticolonialism, and the African World (New York University Press, 2022). Pauulu's Diaspora was awarded the African American Intellectual History Association's (AAIHS) 2021 Pauli Murray Book Prize and a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2021 Fellowship Book Award Prize. Swan's next book project Born As A Sufferah: The Insurgent Soundscapes of Dancehall Music, which explores Black internationalism at the turn of the twenty first century through Reggae, Dancehall and Sound System cultures.