Since its inception, hip-hop has been the gathering point for MCs, DJs, graffiti artists, and B-boys and B-girls of all races and ethnicities. This mixing of cultures has formed a major movement that affects individual communities and neighborhoods as well as our society at large. Join five leading writers, thinkers, and artists in a discussion of radically new ways that the hip-hop generation is processing race in America.

Copresented by Macalester College, this forum features Bakari Kitwana, cofounder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture (2005), and former executive editor of The Source; Adam Mansbach, author of Angry Black White Boy or, The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay (2005) and Shackling Water (2002); Ernie Paniccioli, photographer and author of Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of Hiphop Photography (2002); Oliver Wang, editor of Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide (2003); and DeAnna Cummings, curator of B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip-Hop and executive director of Juxtaposition Arts.

Visit the mnartists.org forums to participate in an online forum and read articles by local writers exploring race and Hip Hop in Minnestoa.

This program, part of the Walker’s Civic Engagement Initiative to encourage dialogue around topics of importance to the community, is made possible in part by the Bush Foundation. Teen Programs are made possible by generous support from the Surdna Foundation and Best Buy Children’s Foundation.

Since its inception, hip-hop has been the gathering point for MCs, DJs, graffiti artists, and B-boys and B-girls of all races and ethnicities. This mixing of cultures has formed a major movement that affects individual communities and neighborhoods as well as our society at large. Join five leading writers, thinkers, and artists in a discussion of radically new ways that the hip-hop generation is processing race in America.

Copresented by Macalester College, this forum features Bakari Kitwana, cofounder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture (2005), and former executive editor of The Source; Adam Mansbach, author of Angry Black White Boy or, The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay (2005) and Shackling Water (2002); Ernie Paniccioli, photographer and author of Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of Hiphop Photography (2002); Oliver Wang, editor of Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide (2003); and DeAnna Cummings, curator of B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip-Hop and executive director of Juxtaposition Arts.

Visit the mnartists.org forums to participate in an online forum and read articles by local writers exploring race and Hip Hop in Minnestoa.

This program, part of the Walker’s Civic Engagement Initiative to encourage dialogue around topics of importance to the community, is made possible in part by the Bush Foundation. Teen Programs are made possible by generous support from the Surdna Foundation and Best Buy Children’s Foundation.