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The Iconoclast Dinner Experience (IDE)

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Join this weekly podcast with Dr. Lezli Levene Harvell, Creator + Curator of The Iconoclast Dinner Experience and her daughters, Zuri and Nava, where they explore Culture, Race, + Societal Issues through the lens of cultural critics, industry experts, writers, and HBCU students and recent grads. Season Two includes Impolite Conversations on topics such as Formerly Untouchable Castes, $5 Indians, and Being White In South Africa 20 years Post-Apartheid.
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According to the US Census, the Native American population has grown by 1600% from 1960 to 2020. We’re closing out our theme of race as a social construct by exploring the phenomenon of White men purchasing Native American identity prevalent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dr. Lezli is joined by Dr. Gregory Smithers, a professor of Ameri…
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Continuing the first theme of Season 2, IDE Impolite Conversation is exploring race as a social construct. The first three episodes of the season explore how the “race” or social stratification can be changed with the stroke of a pen or even purchased. In this episode Dr. Lezli is joined by the founding director of the Wits Centre for Diversity Stu…
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Dr. Lezli kicks off Season 2 of IDE Impolite Conversation exploring race as social construct with leading anti-caste expert, journalist, and award-winning author, Yashica Dutt. Yashica is the author of “Coming Out As Dalit: A Memoir”. The two explore Yashica’s journey hiding her lower, “formerly untouchable” Dalit caste, why "nobody cares about cas…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-hosts Zuri and Nava; Spelman College ‘21 + ‘23 close out Season 1 with the last part of a two part conversation. They get an update from Environmental Studies Major at Howard University; Danurius “Danny” Williams ‘21 who joined for Episode #2 under the theme “Climate Change + COVID-19 + Communities of Color and Divine L…
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Lezli has her final deep dive of Season One with Dr. Régine Jean-Charles, associate professor of French and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. During this penultimate episode of the season, the two discuss Haiti's significance as the first Black republic, the global significance of Haiti’s defeat of France, as well as the Haiti…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-hosts Zuri and Nava; Spelman College ‘21 + ‘23 close out Season 1 with the first of a two part conversation. They get an update from Zuri’s classmate, Chantia Murphy ‘21 who joined for Episode #4 under the theme “Climate Change + COVID-19 + Communities of Color. Chantia is an English Major with a 3.9 GPA, first generati…
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Lezli finishes up her two-part conversation with Dr. Charles L. Hughes, author of Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South, which was named by Rolling Stone, as one of the Best Music Books of 2015. Charles is the DIrector of the Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center at Rhodes College, where he is also an Assistant Professor of…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Zuri; Spelman College ‘21 have a conversation with two HBCU VC Fellows; Kendall Camp; Morehouse College ‘22 Host of Privileged Black Kids Podcast and Trea'jure Dahl Spelman College ‘22. The four explore the minuscule percentage of VC dollars going to Black-owned startups, how Kendall and Trea'jure became interested…
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Lezli continues her exploration of American music with a two-part conversation with Dr. Charles L. Hughes, author of Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South, which was named by Rolling Stone, as one of the Best Music Books of 2015. Charles is the DIrector of the Lynne & Henry Turley Memphis Center at Rhodes College, where h…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava; Spelman College ‘23 finish up their two-part episode conversation with Alston Bowman; Spelman College ‘21 and Zula Oliveira; Clark Atlanta University ‘23 about what veganism elucidated for them regarding how Americans consume meat, the misconception that a vegan diet HAS to be more expensive than an omnivore …
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Lezli chats with Dr. Jack Hamilton, cultural historian, Associate Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at The University of Virginia, Pop Culture Critic for Slate Magazine, and author of the award-winning book, Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination. The two explore the intersection of Race Records and the birth o…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava; Spelman College ‘23 begin a two-part episode conversation with Alston Bowman; Spelman College ‘21 and Zula Oliveira; Clark Atlanta University ‘23 about why they chose veganism, the challenges of being vegan at their respective HBCUs, how they think their institutions can ensure all students; meat eaters and p…
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What does the Charleston dance craze of the 1920s and Bebop Jazz have in common; they were both born in the long-gone NYC neighborhood of San Juan Hill. Lezli chats with Dr. Lance Freeman Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and author of A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-hosts Nava; Spelman College ‘23 and Zuri; Spelman College ‘21 host a special Thanksgiving episode where they discuss some lesser-known facts about one of America’s most celebrated historical figures, Sarah Josepha Hale, the Godmother of the American Thanksgiving and one of the founders of Vassar College. They also discu…
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It’s officially the holiday season. Lezli is joined by Detroit-based Iconoclast Dinner Culinary Honoree and owner of Flowers of Vietnam, George Azar. He shares a brief update on the most recent shutdown in Michigan and how he's impacted as a restaurant owner. They also explore what it was like growing up as a Palestinian Christian in Southwest Detr…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava; Spelman College ‘23 continue the conversation around the historic Biden/Harris win “On The Yard” with Taylor Davis, Howard University ‘21, The 82nd Miss Howard University and a member of the Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. as well as Nia Page, Spelman College ‘20, Immediate Past Spelman Coll…
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Kamala Harris the first woman to hold the second-highest office in the land is an HBCU alumna and member of a BGLO. These groups were integral to the win. Stacey Abrams, another HBCU alumna who helped turn Georgia from red to blue. Lezli explores if this means aspects of African-American culture will move from the margins to the mainstream with How…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava; Spelman College ‘23, chat with Tennille Mack; Spelman College ‘21, Assistant Editor of Arts & Entertainment for The Maroon Tiger and Shasa Revell; Howard University ‘21, reporter for The Howard Hilltop. They discuss what they’re watching and why, who's winning the streaming war, fundamentals of what's missing…
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Lezli closes out this theme with Tina Ngata, a Ngati Porou author and researcher from the East Coast of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her work involves advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. They explore who the god Tiki is, and why he is so sacred to the Māori, WWII, R&R culture, and Elvis movies. Relevant and Recommended Reads: 10 Thing…
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The last of three volumes of “ON THE YARD” episodes inspired by the HOMECOMING HOLIDAY. Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Zuri; Spelman College ‘21, chat with Kennedie Batiste; The 90th Miss Southern University A&M College and Kaylan A. Tanner; The 85th Miss Dillard University about pageant culture at deep south HBCUs. They discuss the significance…
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Lezli continues this five-episode theme with Dr. Panivong Norindr, author of Phantasmatic Indochina French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film, and Literature, as well as Samia Errazzouki, Ph.D. candidate examining early modern Northwest African history, prior to which she was Morocco-based journalist. The three explore how French Imperialism b…
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The second of three volumes of “ON THE YARD” episodes inspired by the HOMECOMING HOLIDAY. Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘23, chat about the shifting of power in college athletics with Sports Editor of The Howard University Hilltop, Kira Grant; Howard University ‘21, and Sports Photojournalist for The Hampton…
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Lezli continues this five-episode theme on historical nostalgia and romanticizing colonialism with Prof. Anthony Szczesiul, author of The Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory. Why did Southern Living magazine make its debut at the height of the Civil Rights Movement? What does “southern hospitality” mean? Benevolen…
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The first of three volumes of “ON THE YARD” episodes inspired by the HOMECOMING HOLIDAY. Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Zuri Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘21, chat cultural memory in the African-American community with Leila Sampson; Spelman College ‘21, whose family has been attending Spelman and Morehouse since the 1890s and Jada Thorne, Sp…
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Melania’s Hat, Plantation Weddings, and Indochic. Why do people long for a time period they’ve never experienced? Over the course of five episodes, IDE Impolite Conversation will explore romanticizing colonialism in popular culture. Lezli kicks off this theme with a conversation with Caitlin Faulkes, British-based psychologist specializing in nosta…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Zuri Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘21, chat with two Afro-Latina students, Maya Machado; Spelman College ‘21 and Zula Oliveira; Clark Atlanta University ‘23. They explore being held to a mestiza and European beauty esthetic, people not assuming they are not Latina because they are Black, being affirmed by Amara …
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Lezli chats with Tanya Katerí Hernández, internationally recognized comparative race law expert and Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. The two explore the mythology of national identity over racial identity in Latin America, anti-Black customs that make anti-Black laws unnecessary, "boa aparência/good looking”…
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It’s National Hispanic Heritage Month. Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘23, chat with two Afro-Latinx students, Leonard McReynolds; Morehouse College ‘23 and Liana Viaga; Florida A&M University ‘22. They explore the importance of people understanding the difference between ethnicity and race, that they aren’t …
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It’s National Hispanic Heritage Month! We’re kicking it off with some Impolite Conversation! Lezli chats with Dr. Katie L. Acosta, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University. They explore historical periods of whitening in Latin America (mejorar la raza/"improve the race"), who isn’t included in Latinidad, Zoe Sa…
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For this live-streamed event, Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Zuri Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘21, chat with two SGA Presidents students, Alanna Gaskin; Prairie View A&M University ‘21 and Xavier McClinton; Florida A&M University ‘21, as well as Andrea Hailey CEO of Vote.org about some of the unprecedented voting-related obstacles facing col…
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In the first part of this two-part episode, Lezli chats with Joanne Hyppolite, Ph.D., a Museum Curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). They explore how and why food and restaurants served as indispensable tools in the fight for democracy during the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. During Part two, Lez…
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Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘23, chat with two New England boarding school alumni; Zuri Levene Harvell, Spelman College ‘21, and Jimmy Stancil, Morehouse College ‘22. They talk about Amazon Prime’s Selah and the Spades as well as parallels between HBCU and New England boarding school culture. Relevant and …
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Lezli closes out the topic that explores Ethnic As A Descriptive, Other Coded Language, and who gets to be American with a two-part conversation. First, she chats with Tyler Phillips, Director of Culture & Lifestyle Partnerships at Bacardi USA. The two explore coded language in marketing and how brands should move forward in a post-George Floyd/Bre…
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Can White Lesbians Use The “D” Word and Who Can Use the “F” Word? Lezli and her ON THE YARD co-host Nava Levene Harvell; Spelman College ‘23, chat with two LGBTQ students, Janelle Edge; Florida A&M University ‘21, and Zion Gates Norris; Florida Memorial University ‘21; about reclaiming terms that were once used to harm the LGBTQ community and who c…
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In the third episode exploring Ethnic As A Descriptive + Other Coded Language, Lezli is joined by Dr. Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies at American University. They discuss institutional patterns that maintain hierarchy in academia and send implicit messages to stud…
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Lezli co-hosts ON THE YARD for the first time with her daughter and Spelman College student, Nava Levene Harvell, ‘23. They chat with two Nigerian students that attend HBCUs. Amelia Ayomoh ‘23 and Divine Linus ‘23; students at Philander Smith College and Morehouse College respectively, share their experiences as international students, their ration…
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In the second episode exploring “Ethnic As A Descriptive + Other Coded Language”, Lezli is joined by Dr. Niambi Carter, Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University and author of American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship as well as Dr. Lok Siu, a cultural anthropologist and Associate Profes…
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Creator of The Iconoclast Dinner Experience (IDE), Executive Producer and host of The IDE Impolite Conversation Podcast, Lezli Levene Harvell and ON THE YARD’s co-host, her eldest daughter and Spelman College student, Zuri Levene Harvell chat with two White students that attend an HBCU. ON THE YARD explores topics through the lens of HBCU students …
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Creator of The Iconoclast Dinner Experience (IDE), Executive Producer and host of The IDE Impolite Conversation Podcast, Lezli Levene Harvell begins a new theme exploring Hamburgers and Hot Dogs Are German...You Know That Right? Which explores Ethnic As A Descriptive, Other Coded Language, and Who Gets To Be American. Over the course of five episod…
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For this live-streamed ON THE YARD event, Lezli Levene Harvell and her co-host Zuri Levene Harvell Spelman College ‘21, explore the emotional toll of activism with Zion Gates Norris ‘21, SGA Vice President of Florida Memorial University as well as Nupol Kiazolu, President of Black Lives Matter-Greater NY, Hampton University ‘22. They are joined by …
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What was agriculture like in this country prior to Columbus? In the fifth and final episode under the theme “Climate Change + COVID-19 + Communities of Color” Lezli is joined by Leonard Diggs, the Director of Operations at Pie Ranch Farm and Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, registered member of the Hopi tribe; and a Research Associate at the Native Ame…
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Creator of The Iconoclast Dinner Experience (IDE) Executive Producer and host of The IDE Impolite Conversation Podcast, Lezli Levene Harvell and ON THE YARD’s co-host, her eldest daughter and Spelman College student student, Zuri Levene Harvell chat in Episode four of a five part series of conversations beginning at the height of the coronavirus, r…
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The third episode under the theme “Climate Change + COVID-19 + Communities of Color” Lezli is joined by, a Metropolitan Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution and two business owners/restaurateurs; James Beard Award winning chef; Nina Compton and award-winning marketer turned restaurant owner Karl Franz Williams. Karl and Nina share their battl…
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In the first ON THE YARD edition, Creator of The Iconoclast Dinner Experience (IDE), Executive Producer and host of The IDE Impolite Conversation Podcast, Lezli Levene Harvell begins the second episode introducing one of ON THE YARD’s co-host, her eldest daughter and Spelman College student, Zuri Levene Harvell. Episode two of a five part series of…
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In the premiere episode, Creator of The Iconoclast Dinner Experience (IDE), Executive Producer and host of The IDE Impolite Conversation Podcast, Lezli Levene Harvell begins her first episode introducing the podcast and episode one of a five part series of conversations beginning at the height of the coronavirus, reflecting a timely perspective on …
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Join this twice a week podcast with Lezli Creator + Curator of The Iconoclast Dinner Experience (IDE) and her daughters, Zuri and Nava, where they explore Culture, Race, + Societal Issues through the lens of cultural critics, industry experts, writers, and HBCU students and recent grads. Season One includes Impolite Conversations on topics such as …
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