'Hair Love,' Remembering Kobe Bryant and Michael Vick's Road to Redemption
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Popular culture experts Natalie Bullock Brown and Mark Anthony Neal join host Frank Stasio in this installment of #Backchannel to talk about representation in animated film and how the short disrupts assumptions about black fathers. They also pay tribute to the recently-deceased Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and share insight into the tension surrounding how his 2003 rape allegation is being talked about in the wake of his death.