Hip-Hop and the 2008 Presidential Election at the Museum of the City of New York

Friday, October 3, 2008,
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029

The 2008 presidential election promises to be an electrifying race for young people, whose vote is expected to have a major impact. Join leading hip-hop activists, scholars, and artists in a town hall style discussion of the impact of the hip-hop generation on the election and how hip-hop has morphed into a potent political force.

The panel will feature Chuck D, co-founder of Public Enemy, the political hip-hop group that redefined hip-hop as message music; Angela Woodson, Director of Outreach for the Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-based Initiatives; Keli Goff, author of the book Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence ; and Adam Mansbach, author of the critically-acclaimed Angry Black White Boy, or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay. The panel will be moderated by Bakari Kitwana, the executive director of Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip-Hop.

Sponsored by Campus Progress.

To RSVP, please call 212.534.1672, ext. 3395.

For more information, please email speakers@campusprogress.org.