The Politics Behind Exporting Hip-Hop

This was a panel convened by Words, Beats and Life in 2012. “This panel seeks to highlight what happens when hip-hop is the primary vehicle to enact the kind of changes it was created to make and what happens when people often outside the community and in some case from within it drive the trajectory…

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What Is “Hip-Hop Activism”? w Bakari Kitwana

Bakari Kitwana joined us this week for a “debate” on the meaning of “hip-hop activism.”  What is “hip-hop” as a community, a generation and what is this “hip-hop activism” leading us toward?  To which political genealogy is that community attempting to connect, extend, exemplify?  What is the ideology of this community and what methods is it…

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