Community Dialogue on Hip Hop: Does Hip Hop Hate Women? October 5, 2007

Friday • October 5 • 7:00 PM
Community Dialogue on Hip Hop: Does Hip Hop Hate Women?



Hosted by Beverly Bond of Black Girls Rock! Inc., and moderated by Bakari Kitwana of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, this discussion of the gender crisis facing the hip-hop generation features intellectuals and activists including Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University; Joan Morgan, author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist (Simon & Schuster, 1999); M-1, aka Mutulu Olugabala, rapper and activist; Byron Hurt, director of Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes; and Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Vanderbilt University. Presented by Black Girls Rock! in conjunction with VH1 Hip Hop Honors Weekend.



Free event, reservations required.



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