Hip-Hop Activism and the Arab Spring on a Special Martin Luther King Day Episode of Left of Black
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in person by activist, hip-hop artist, and architect Omar Offendum, and jazz, hip-hop artist, and educator Pierce Freelon. Taped in October as part John Hope Franklin Center Wednesdays at the Centerprogramming, Offendum and Freelon discuss the role that hip-hop has played and continues to play in activism.
Offendum, a Syrian American artist, and Freelon, whose parents are Jazz artist Nnenna Freelon and architect Philip Freelon, discuss the importance of authenticity, and reflecting one’s community and background in their work.
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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/left-of-black. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.
Left of Blackis recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.
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Follow Omar Offendom on Twitter: @Offendum
Follow Pierce Freelon on Twitter: @durhamite
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