{"id":4523,"date":"2011-05-03T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2015-05-29T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T16:25:18","slug":"hip-hop-journalist-activist-bakari-kitwana-to-speak-at-wright-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/05\/03\/hip-hop-journalist-activist-bakari-kitwana-to-speak-at-wright-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-hop journalist, activist Bakari Kitwana to speak at Wright State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4525\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/05\/03\/hip-hop-journalist-activist-bakari-kitwana-to-speak-at-wright-state\/hip-hop-generation\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4525\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/05\/Hip-Hop-Generation.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of cover of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture\" width=\"183\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture, which focuses on young African Americans born after the Civil Rights Movement, has been adopted as a course book in classrooms at over 100 colleges and universities.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, May 4, at 4 p.m. at the Millett Hall Atrium, the Wright State University community will have a unique opportunity to meet Bakari Kitwana and listen to his presentation on Hip-Hop: The Love, Struggle, and the Future.<\/p>\n<p>Kitwana is a journalist, activist and political analyst. He has provided commentary on politics and youth culture on CNN, FOX News, C-Span and PBS, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Kitwana is currently Senior Media Fellow at the Harvard Law\u2013based think tank, The Jamestown Project, and the executive director of Rap Sessions: Community Dialogue on Hip-Hop. The group conducts town hall meetings across the country on difficult dialogues facing the hip-hop generation.<\/p>\n<p>Kitwana\u2019s 2002 book <em>The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture<\/em>, which focuses on young African Americans born after the Civil Rights Movement, has been adopted as a course book in classrooms at over 100 colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>Kitwana published his first book, <em>The Rap on Gangsta Rap,<\/em> in 1994. Since then, he\u2019s been the editorial director of Third World Press, executive editor of the hip-hop magazine <em>The Source<\/em> and co-founder of the first National Hip-Hop Political Convention. The event brought over 4,000 young people to Newark, New Jersey, in 2004 to create and endorse a political agenda for the hip-hop generation.<\/p>\n<p>The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and The Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center are sponsoring this speaking event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, May 4, at 4 p.m. at the Millett Hall Atrium, the Wright State University community will have a unique opportunity to meet Bakari Kitwana&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/05\/03\/hip-hop-journalist-activist-bakari-kitwana-to-speak-at-wright-state\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37049,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/37049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}