Spelman College and female hip-hop rap artist MC Lyte Present Hip-Hop Week"—a week of insightful guest lectures, lively panel discussions and engaging conversations—is being presented on the heels of the passing of activist C. Delores Tucker—one of the first Black women to candidly and publicly address the issue of negative, hypers*xual imagery in hip-hop music on a national scale.
Hip Hop Week will deal with the impact of hip-hop culture in urban, suburban and rural communities of youth. Hip hop is used to sell everything from music to clothes to cars to food and liquor, and everything in between.
With its growing influence, how is hip-hop being internalized by its target audience? What are the social implications? "Spelman College and MC Lyte Present Hip Hop Week" will explore this question and many others in depth.
Along with hip hop rap artist MC Lyte, there will also be Chuck D., Cheryl “Salt” James, Da Brat, Yoyo, actor/musician Malcolm Jamal Warner, actor Darryl “Chill” Mitchell, hip-hop historian Davey D., cultural critics Paul Porter and Joan Morgan, author/activist/playwright Pearl Cleage, filmmaker Byron Hurt, and Spelman College Professors Drs. William Jelani Cobb and Tarshia Stanley participating in a dynamic discourse addressing the tough questions about hip-hop’s impact on its most common consumers, the youth, as well as society as a whole.
The event will be Monday, October 31 through Friday, November 4, 2005 on the Spelman College Campus, 350 Spelman Lane, SW.
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