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Video 1:30 P.M.: Michelle Obama as a Global Icon of Black Womanhood

In today's episode of "Left of Black," host and Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Professor Lakesia D. Johnson, author of "Iconic: Decoding Images of the Revolutionary Black Woman" (Baylor University Press) and Washington, D.C.,-based journalist, Natalie Hopkinson, author of "Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City" (Duke University Pres, 2012). They discuss the portrayal of African-American women and the African-American community in the nation's capital.

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