Black Comedy From Dick Gregory to the Present

James Farmer, left, national director of CORE, Rev. Milton H. Galamison, right, at Siloam Presbyterian Church, and Dick Gregory, center, Feb. 3, 1964, in Brooklyn protesting alleged racial imbalance i

Mark Anthony Neal, Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies and Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University, offers an abridged history of Black comedy as a tool for activism from Dick Gregory to the present.