Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-black
Social commentator, activist, journalist, professor, and longtime friend Dr. Marc Lamont Hill joins host Prof. Mark Anthony Neal for the Season Finale of Left of Black's thirteenth season. Dr. Hill chops it up with Dr. Neal on subjects ranging from Black masculinity to where Black Studies is happening outside of the university––all while recounting some of the highlights to his long career in media. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is the host of UpFront on Al Jazeera, news anchor for The Grio TV, a BET News correspondent, and is Professor and the Steve Charles Chair in Media Cities and Solutions at Temple University. He is also the owner and operator of Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books in Philadelphia, PA.
Find out more about Uncle Bobbie's here: unclebobbies.com/.
Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Directed, filmed, and edited by Eric Barstow, MFA.
@dukeuniversity @FranklinHumanities @FranklinCenterAtDuke @dukeuniversitysdepartmento2485 @templeuniversity #blackscholars #blackstudies
Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-black
Social commentator, activist, journalist, professor, and longtime friend Dr. Marc Lamont Hill joins host Prof. Mark Anthony Neal for the Season Finale of Left of Black's thirteenth season. Dr. Hill chops it up with Dr. Neal on subjects ranging from Black masculinity to where Black Studies is happening outside of the university––all while recounting some of the highlights to his long career in media. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is the host of UpFront on Al Jazeera, news anchor for The Grio TV, a BET News correspondent, and is Professor and the Steve Charles Chair in Media Cities and Solutions at Temple University. He is also the owner and operator of Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books in Philadelphia, PA.
Find out more about Uncle Bobbie's here: unclebobbies.com/.
Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Directed, filmed, and edited by Eric Barstow, MFA.
@dukeuniversity @FranklinHumanities @FranklinCenterAtDuke @dukeuniversitysdepartmento2485 @templeuniversity #blackscholars #blackstudies



![tgiFHI with Beverly McIver | “A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”
Learn more about tgiFHI here: https://fhi.duke.edu/engagement/tgifhi/
“A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”
Abstract: My talk is inspired by a promise I made to my mom that I would care for my mentally disabled sister, Renee. When my mom died twelve years ago, I became Renees legal guardian. Ive been caring for Renee and recently had to move Renee to assisted living. Ill discuss the importance of keeping a promise, the ups and downs of caretaking and juggling a career as an artist and professor. I will also show a short trailer of the HBO documentary that was made about me and Renee. The filmmakers followed me and Renee for 5 years in order to create Raising Renee. Raising Renee was nominated for an Emmy and was selected and shown at [the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival] 12 years ago.
Beverly McIver is Professor of the Practice of Art in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University.
Watch the trailer for Raising Renee here: https://youtu.be/7bTePE7Pj7c?feature=shared
tgiFHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their departmental and interdepartmental colleagues, students, and other interlocutors in their fields.
tgiFHI events take place from 9:30–11:00 a.m. on Friday mornings in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse). Our director introduces at the speaker at 9:30 a.m., and the speaker gives a talk of about 45–50 minutes. We then open the floor for discussion, and close at 11:00 a.m. tgiFHI with Beverly McIver | “A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uy33Gy8TE3A/mqdefault.jpg)






