Rap Sessions: Is America Really Post-Racial?

Did you miss this townhall when it happened? You can catch it now. Download it and listen to it as you get on with your summer.

Hear what Jabari Asim, Editor-in-Chief of Crisis magazine and author of The N-Word: Who Can Say it, Who Shouldn’t and Why; Lisa Fager Bediako, president and cofounder of Industry Ears, Inc., an advocacy/activist think tank focused on hip-hop media; Timuel Black, an educator and social activist; Invincible, a Detroit-based hip-hop artist and activist; and Tricia Rose, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and author of the first scholarly text on hip-hop culture, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, 1994, have to say to moderator Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip-Hop Generation and cofounder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention. The event was recorded on April 16th, 2009 and sponsored by Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media.

via Chicago Amplified – Rap Sessions: Is America Really Post-Racial?.

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