Left of Black: Wednesday @ the Center

Hip-Hop Activism and the Arab Spring

w/ Omar Offendum and Pierce Freelon 

January 16,  2012 

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in person by activist, hip-hop artist, and architect Omar Offendum, and jazz, hip-hop artist, and educator Pierce Freelon.  Recorded in October as part of the John Hope Franklin Center’s Wednesdays at the Center programming, Offendum and Freelon discuss the role that hip-hop has played and continues to play in activism.  Offendum, a Syrian American artist, and Freelon, whose parents are  Jazz artist Nnenna Freelon and architect Philip Freelon,  discuss the importance of authenticity, and reflecting one’s community and background in their work. 

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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