Left of Black S6:E27: Organizing a Hip-Hop Electorate in an Age of Anti-Black Violence

Left of Black S6:E27:  Organizing a Hip-Hop Electorate in an Age of Anti-Black Violence
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in-studio by Bakari Kitwana (@TheRealBakari), veteran journalist and activist.  Neal and Kitwana discuss the founding of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, the Black Live Matters 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.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 and in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE).
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