Rap Sessions: A Community Dialogue on Hip Hop
Celebrate Black History Month
February 18, 2009 – 7:00 pm
Donaghey Student Center Rooms A & B
Guests Include: Bakari Kitwana, MC Search, Dr. Walter Kimbrough and Lisa Fager Bediako
Moderator: Patrick Oliver
Hip-hop activist and acclaimed author, Bakari Kitwana, is collaborating with the Community Technology Foundation of California to continue Rap Sessions, the first national tour exploring race and hip-hop. Is America really in a post racism era?
Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough is the 12th president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. As the first college president from the hip-hop generation, he is one of the youngest college presidents in the nation. Prior to Philander Smith College, he served in administrative capacities at Albany State University, Old Dominion University, Georgia State University and Emory University.
Come listen. Come be heard.