Murray Forman - Hip-Hop Culture, Politics, Identites

controversies and negative labels associated with hip-hop, artists and activists are increasingly collaborating to move hip-hop in the direction of greater political engagement and social responsibility. Today, hip-hop has the potential to serve as a positive agent for change at the community and national levels. Participating in the conversation are Murray Forman, assistant professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, and author of The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop and co-editor, with Mark Anthony Neal, of That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader; Renee Graham, a freelance writer, who wrote extensively about hip-hop culture in her weekly Boston Globe column "Life in the Pop Lane," and now reports on pop culture for National Public Radio's Here and Now on WBUR; Phil Haddix, founder and facilitator of the Broken Fingers program at Fletcher Maynard Academy in Cambridge and coordinator of the Just-a-Start Career Connection program at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High, who uses hip-hop and adolescent literacies as a tool for youth development; Geoff Ward, assistant professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern, and a faculty member of the Institute for Race and Justice, who has, for many years studied the changing dynamics of hip-hop culture and the black community. The program's moderator is Athenaeum Trustee, Isaiah Jackson, music director of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.show less...