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Princeton to Perform at 3rd Annual Hip Hop For Change
Princeton will be representing YMR at this dynamic upcoming event!
THIRD ANNUAL HIP HOP FOR CHANGE
The Fight for Hip Hop in the Obama Era
April 17, 2010
9:00am - 5:00pm
Mills College
Rothwell Student Union and Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business
REGISTER NOW! (Spots filling up fast!)
This free day-long conference will chronicle the journey of hip hop, diving into the questions of ownership, identity, and our role in shaping it's future direction. The day also includes interactive workshops focusing on 4 elements, opportunities to organize, explorations of questions such as how can Hip Hop be a tool for mobilizing community, used as an alternative to violence, free lunch, and a closing cypher (sign up if you want to participate in registration).
- Dynamic presentations include:
- Bakari Kitwana: journalist, activist and political analyst and author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture
- Dr. Susie Lundy: Graffiti Historian, b-girl, deejay, educator, and muralist
- Netta Brielle: Bay Area R & B and Hip Hop artist
- BRWN BFLO: BayArea Hip Hop Group and Activists
- Colored Ink: Hip Hop Theater Company
- BY ANY DREAMS NECESSARY: Art and educational access non-profit partnered with TERUO Artistry
- and more presentations will be throughout the day
Kitwana’s Keynote will address: The participation of the hip-hop generation and their post hip-hop generation younger siblings in electing President Barack Obama has radically altered the political landscape. What do these changes mean for the future of hip-hop and politics in general and youth leadership, in particular? “Hip-Hop Leadership in the Post-Civil Rights Era” is a public forum that will examine the significance of hip-hop in Black life as well as its impact in American business, politics and culture.
- The presentation will highlight the following five key points:
- Understanding the ways the 2008 election and youth participation in it changed the political landscape—from technology and the expansion of social marketing to the emergence of new organizations and leaders;
- Identifying a youth political agenda;
- Strategies for young leaders to move beyond the awe of having elected the nation’s first Black president to begin the important process of creating public policy and holding elected officials accountable to their issues;
- Taking a closer look at the importance of gender in the lives of young Americans, specifically ways that gender intersects with hip-hop, media justice and political activism;
- And finally, exploring how hip-hop activism remains an important organizing too even as the arrival of the post civil rights politics era has broadened the ways for youth to be empowered beyond hip-hop.
REGISTER NOW!
***Brought to you by the Cultural Centers of Mills College, University of San Francisco, and San José State University***
