Episode 27 | Organizing a Hip-Hop Electorate in an Age of Anti-Black Violence

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Bakari Kitwana , veteran journalist and activist

Neal and Kitwana discuss the founding of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the impact of down ballot elections in the context of anti-Black police violence. Kitwana is the executive director of Rap Sessions, which is currently touring the nation leading town hall discussions on the theme “Election 2016: Reform or Revolution?” His books include The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture, Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America, and  the forthcoming Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era. Kitwana has served as Editorial Director of Third World Press, Executive Editor of The Source—the nation’s top-selling music magazine— and co-founder the first ever National Hip-Hop Political Convention.