Contact information
Name:
John McKnight
Phone:
610-330-5819
Email:
mcknighj@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Where:
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights 104
Presenter:
Rap Sessions, Moderated by Bakari Kitwana
Led by a distinguished panel of emerging leaders, activists and scholars, this town-hall style discussion explores the ways the election of Obama, the emergence of the Tea Party and the shifting national political landscape has both strengthen and diminished hip-hop’s effectiveness at galvanizing youth. The moderator of the discussion is Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture, and panelists include: Rosa Clemente (community organizer, journalist, 2008 Vice Presidential candidate for the Green Party); Jasiri X (independent hip hop artist); Stefanie Brown (National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division); Rob “Biko” Baker (Executive Director of The League of Young Voters); and Cathy Cohen (Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago).
Sponsored by:
Office of Intercultural Development, Senior Diversity Office, Association of Black Collegians