Appearances (past and media archive)

Selected Past Presentations:

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, January 2007

Olympic College, Seattle, WA, February 2007

Central CT University, New Britain, CT, February 2007

AACTE Conference, New York, NY, February 2007

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 2007

University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, March 2007

Greenville College, Greenville, IL, March 2007

Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, March 2007

Barnard College, New York, NY, April 2007

Cal. State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, April 2007

Mars Hill College, Asheville, NC, April 2007

Columbia University New York, NY, February 2006

Bard Graduate Center New York, NY, February 2006

Boston College Boston, MA, February 2006

Wesleyan University Middletown, CT, February 2006

Drake University Des Moines, IA, February 2006

Stanford University Palo Alto, CA, March 2006

Columbia Univ. New York, NY, April 2006

Highline College Seattle, WA, April 2006

Univ. Rhode Island Feminism and Hip Hop Conference
Kingston, RI, September 2006

American Studies Assoc. Oakland, CA, October 2006

Yale Divinity School New Haven, CT, November 2006

In Vogue Symposium Washington, DC, November 2006

Essence Music Fest. New Orleans, LA, July 2005

Sarah Lawrence College New York, NY, August 2005

George Mason University Fairfax, VA, September 2005

Katrina Symposium New York University New York, NY, October 2005

Princeton University Princeton, NJ, November 2005

Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, March 2005.

Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, MA, March 2005.

Boston College, Boston, MA, February 2005.

George Mason Univiversity, Fairfax, VA, February 2005.

University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, February 2005.

School of Education, New York University, New York, NY, February 2005.

Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, January 2005.

"Identity Soundtracks: Race and Gender in Popular Culture," Phi Theta Kappa Honors Institute, UCLA, June 2004.

"Black Women's Sexuality and the Possibilities for Intimate Justice," USC, Los Angeles, April 2004.

Panelist, "Gender and Sexuality in African-American Communities," Women's Studies and African-American Studies, Harvard University, April 2004.

Panelist, "The Future of Affirmative Action" The Dalton School, New York, NY, April 2004.

Book Reading, Hospital Worker's Union Training Center, Philadelphia, PA, April 2004.

Book Reading, Borders Books, Philadelphia, PA, April 2004.

Keynote, "Black Women's Sexuality in America," Givens Foundation for African-American Literature Lecture Series, Minneapolis, MN, April 2004.

Zora Neale Hurston Lecture, "Black Women's Sexuality and the Possibilities for Intimate Justice," Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, March 2004.

"Black Women's Sexuality," Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, March 2004.

"Intimacy in the Black Community," Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY, March 2004.

Panelist, "Intellectualism in America Today," St. Andrews School, Middletown, DE, March 2004.

"Hip Hop and the Politics of Representation," Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT, February 2004.

Keynote, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration, San Francisco High School, San Francisco, CA, January 2004.

Keynote, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, January 2004.

Book Reading, Writers with Drinks, San Francisco, CA, January 2004.

"Thinking Through Popular Culture: Racism and Sexism in Unlikely Places," University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, February, 2003.

"Black Cultural Futures: Struggles Over Identity, Representation and Community in Hip Hop," Bucknell College, Black Experience Annual Lecture, September 2003.

"Race, Popular Culture and Global Diasporas" Cal. State, Dominguez Hill, May 2003

"Black Musical Futures: Struggles over Representation, Identity and Community in Black Popular Music" for the "Race, Globalization and the New Ethnic Studies" Conference Brown University, Providence, March 2003

"Critical Theory and the Future of African-American Studies" for "Back to the Future of Civilization: Celebrating 30 Years of African-American Studies at Penn," University of Pennsylvania, Philidelphia, February 2003

"Racism, Sexism and Popular Culture" University of Colorado, Boulder, February 2003

"The Politics of Commodification in Hip Hop" Santa Rosa Junior College, December 2002

"Racism and Sexism in Popular Culture, University of Maryland, College Park April 2002

"Political Futures in Hip Hop" Dartmouth College and Ithaca College April 2002; Clark Atlanta University, February 2002

"Black Futures" Mankato State College, Mankato Minnesota, February 2002

"Racial/Sexual Rorschach Tests in American Public Life: The Case of Tawana Brawley, Dartmouth College, February 2002

"New Terms of Racial Belonging in the Wake of 9/11" New York and Beyond, NYU, December 2001;

"Black Women's Sexual Testimony" Smith College, October 2001

"Hip Hop and the New Politics of Consumption" University of Louisville, October 2001;

"African-American Leadership in the 21st Century, George Mason University, October 2001;

"Hip Hop for Teachers" Seminar leader in Teachers as Scholars Program, Harvard, October, 2001;

"Race, Image and Sports" NBA Players Association Conference, Nassau Bahamas, July 2001;

"The State of Hip Hop" Minneapolis Juneteenth Celebration, June 2001; Michigan University, March 2001; Wesleyan University, March 2001; Wheaton College, February, 2001.

"Longing to Tell: Intimacy, Betrayal and the Politics of Black Sexuality" Wesleyan, April 2001; U.C. Santa Cruz, February 2001.

"Sexism and the Politics of Race in Hip Hop Culture" U. of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 2001.

"Race, Gender and Popular Culture" Nichols College, January, 2001

"M.L. King and the Future of Black America" M.L. King Day Keynote, Minnesota/St. Paul Celebration

"The Changing Face of America" Conference, Anne E. Casey Foundation, panelist, October, 2000.

"Black Women's Sexual Testimonies and the Politics of Recognition" Cultural Studies at the Crossroads Conference, Birmingham, England, June 2000.

"Contemporary Black Music & Black Market Subversion: Problems & Possibilities" Yale, March 2000; University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 2000.

"The Politics of Urban Crisis" Metropolitan Studies Conference, NYU, March 2000.

"Visions and Futures in Contemporary Black Culture" Smith College, February 2000; Middlebury College, March 2000

"Gender in the African-American Community" Invited Participant, Ford Foundation, November 1999

"Black Cultural Testimony & the Politics of Recognition" Michigan State, Keynote, November 1999; and Central Michigan State, Humanities at the Millennium Distinguished Lecture, November 1999

"Women's Creativity" The New School for Social Research, October 1999

Selected Past Media Commentary:

• Bev Smith Show, November 2004
• KPFA, "Against the Grain", September 2004
• Salon Magazine, July 2004
• Chicago Tribune, April 2004
• WHYY, "Radio Times', April 2004
• WAMU "Kojo Nnamdi Show" April 2004
• WPFW, "In Our Voices" April 2004
• San Francisco Chronicle, April 2004
• WEAA Morgan State University Radio, March 2004
• CBS Radio, February 2004
• Elle.com, November 2003
• Ebony, November 2003
• "Hip Hop Battles" Studio 360, WNYC, April, 2003
• "AIDS, Black Women and Sex" Mo in the Morning, WZFS, Chicago, March 2003
• NPR, PowerPoint, October, 2003 "On Eminen"
• BET.COM on Black Superwomen, Fall 2002
• NPR, February 2002
• PBS, American Experience, "Miss America" Documentary, January 2002
• CSPAN, Hip Hop Summit, June 2001
• BET Tonight, June 2001
• CNN, "The Jeff Greenfield Show" June 2001
• CNBC, segment on Bob Johnson of BET, May 2001
• NPR, March, 2001
• BBC, Documentary on Puff-Daddy, March, 2001
• "Morning News" WLIB, New York, October 1999
• "Electric Drum" WYBC, New Haven, February 1999
• Sunday Morning News, Canadian TV, January 1999