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Jordan’s death comes just months after the deaths of Lewis and the Rev. C.T. Vivian. Porter joined WABE’s “All Things Considered” host Jim Burress live to talk about making the film about Jordan and the memories she shared with him. In the documentary, Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African American Research at Harvard, said that Jordan was the first person to realize that “a devastatingly effective form of Black power would be top-down integration, at the heart of American capitalism, Wall Street. Vernon Jordan has done more to integrate the corridors of...

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‘I’ve had to fight’: Kehinde Andrews on life as the first UK professor of Black studies ‘I’ve probably done permanent damage to my mental and physical health establishing this course’ ... Kehinde Andrews. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian ‘I’ve probably done permanent damage to my mental and physical health establishing this course’ ... Kehinde Andrews. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian From a childhood identity crisis to navigating academia, he discusses the importance of Black radical tradition – and why TV quarrels with Nigel Farage...

‘I’ve had to fight’: Kehinde Andrews on life as the first UK professor of Black studies Nesrine Malik © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian When Kehinde Andrews was at school, his friends would never have imagined him growing up to become the UK’s first Black studies professor – nor that he would help found the first Black studies programme in Europe, at Birmingham City University. True, he grew up in the city, the son of two committed Black activists, who established numerous organisations and promoted the Black anti-racist intellectual...

(HBO, 9 p.m., second-season finale): HBO’s glossy adaptation of Philip Pullman’s celebrated series closes the book on its second season with “Æsahættr.” That’s the name of the Subtle Knife from which the second book in the trilogy takes its name—and it’s a safe bet that it’ll be hugely important to this finale, in which all roads lead to the Cittàgazze. The series be back for season three eventually. But for now, content yourselves with Myles McNutt’s recap (or, you know, just read book three. It’s good!)