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.

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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.