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Youth, Pop Culture & Participatory Politics

Digital Media and Learning Conference 2013

Plenary Session #2: How is young people's engagement with pop culture a gateway to finding their voice & place in the sphere of participatory politics? 

Participants:  
Henry Jenkins - Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California Andrew Slack - Co-Founder of the Harry Potter Alliance Mark Anthony Neal - Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University

New York's 'Stop-and-Frisk' Policy Under Fire

Al Jazeera English
The New York City police practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is about to face its biggest legal challenge. A civil rights group is taking police to court over claims that the so-called stop and frisk policy targets minorities. Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey reports from New York City.

*Some footage in the report comes from allthingsharlem.com*

Left of Black S3:E22 | Becoming Latina w/ Raquel Cepeda

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dj lynnee denise Presents "Planet Rock: Techno, House Music and Afrofuturism" @ Spelman

Lupe Fiasco - "Jonylah Forever" (Tribute To Jonylah Watkins)

StereoTypes Paris: French African vs. African American?

iamOTHER
What's it like to be a black person in France? What's the immigrant experience for people of African descent? StereoTypes host Ryan Hall hits the streets of Paris to find out.

What is Driving High Suicide Rates Amongst Latina Teenagers?

The Stream:
Latina teenagers have one of the highest rates of suicide among teens in the United States. In many cases they share a common thread: they are first-generation Americans with immigrant parents – and they find themselves caught between old traditions and their American life. So what is driving these girls to the brink of hopelessness and what is being done to stop it? 
In this episode, we speak to:

Raquel Cepeda @RaquelCepeda
Author
djalirancher.com

Beatriz Coronel @BeaActivist
Program Coordinator
comunilife.org

Lauren Gulbas
Research Assistant Professor, Darthmouth College

Miguelina German @EinsteinMed
Assistant Professor
einstein.yu.edu

Eric Ibarra @lasfotosproject
Founder and Executive Director
lasfotosproject.org

Up with Chris: The Racial Politics of Soda

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Up with Chris w/ Ben Jealous, NYC Council Woman Letitia James, Monifa Bandele

Remixing Citizenship, Remaking Democracy

Digital Media & Learning Conference: Remixing Citizenship, Remaking Democracy

This panel can address the various forms and contexts through which young people's engagement in their communities and networked publics are creating distinct opportunities for civic engagement and expanding what it means to be a citizen in the 21st century.

Moderator: Craig Watkins  Participants: danah boyd, Astrid Silva, Biko Baker, Cathy Cohen

Promo: Raquel Cepeda talks 'Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina' on March 18th 'Left of Black'

On the March 18th  Left of Black, Mark Anthony Neal talks with writer and filmmaker Raquel Cepeda about her new book, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina .

Cepeda's credits include Bling: A Planet Rock , a feature length documentary about American hip-hop culture’s obsession with diamonds and the critically acclaimed anthology And It Don’t Stop: The Best Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years , winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins and Latino Book Award.
Tune in at 1:30pm EST:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9K0Hw38Eag