Author & Activist Bakari Kitwana Will Discuss Hip-Hop Culture in Two September 15 Talks

September 9, 2009

September 9, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — Bakari Kitwana, senior media fellow at the Harvard Law-based think tank The Jamestown Project and author of the forthcoming book Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era, will present a pair of lectures at DePauw University on Tuesday, September 15. At noon, Kitwana will discuss "Youth Leadership and Hip-Hop in the Obama Era." At 6 p.m., he'll discuss "Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?" Both events will take place in Terrace Rooms A & B of the Memorial Student Union Building and are free and open to the public.

A former editor at The Source, Kitwana is also the author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture and The Rap on Gangsta Rap. A consultant on hip-hop for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kitwana has been a visiting scholar at Kent State University where he taught a course entitled "The Politics of the Hip-Hop Generation" and a has written a column on hip-hop for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His essays have also appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Progressive.

His DePauw appearances are presented by the Office of Multicultural and Community Life.

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