[Imc-chicago-audio] What's Bigger Than Hip Hop?

[Erin Polgreen]

MEDIA ALERT

Sept , 2005 | For Immediate Release

Bigger than Hip Hop

Can hip hop save black activism? In Bigger Than Hip Hop,  
BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor Glen Ford, reports from the  
2006 National Hip Hop Political Convention and finds that the answer  
isn’t so simple.

In “Bigger Than Hip Hop,” Ford argues that though there is a “black  
generational divide” separating old-school civil rights activists  
from the new school of hip hop politicos, the real schism has as much  
to do with culture, class, geography, consumerism and the  
corporatization of black media as it does age.

Featuring on-the-spot interviews with the grassroots activists,  
religious leaders, lawyers and advocates for social justice from  
around the country, Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a critical look at the  
black leaders of tomorrow, who hope that hip hop will grow into a  
movement as driven as the previous generation’s.

“The hip hop activists who have been set in motion are a conscious  
extension of the movement that came before,” Ford writes. “Their fate  
is to work on the unfinished business of the previous struggle. It’s  
a task that is indeed “bigger than hip hop.”

To read the rest of this article, visit: http://www.inthesetimes.com/ 
site/main/article/2791



For more information or to interview Glen Ford, please contact:

Erin Polgreen, Advertising and Marketing Coordinator

erin at inthesetimes.com

773/772.0100 Ext. 225


  
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