Left of Black: Wednesday @ the Center
Hip-Hop Activism and the Arab Spring
w/ Omar Offendum and Pierce Freelon
January 16, 2012
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. Recorded in October as part of the John Hope Franklin Center’s Wednesdays at the Center programming, 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 is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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