Assata Shakur and the State of Activism

“Welcome and good morning.  You are now tuned to WPFW 89.3 FM, what is supposed to be a liberated masses medium.  This is the super funky soul power hour, a newly official member of theTrggr Media Group, aka Trggr Media Collective, aka Trggr Radio South…

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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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