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Bakari Kitwana Event Schedule

 

September 18, 2006

Anchorage, AK

University of Alaska. Student Union Den. Bakari will lecture on “Hip-Hop and The Constitution.” For more information: 907-786-1213.

7:30 pm

September 19, 2006

Fairbanks, AK

University of Alaska. Wood Center / Alumni Lounge. Bakari Kitwana will lecture on “Hip-Hop’s Rainbow Coalition: Organizing the Hip-Hop Voting Bloc.” For more information: 907-474-6026.

7:00 pm

September 26, 2006

Bethlehem, PA

Lehigh College. Bakari Kitwana will lecture on “Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop.” A booksigning for Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop will follow. For more information: 610-758-4649.

7:00 pm

September 30, 2006

Middlebury, VT

Middlebury College. McCullough Student Center. Bakari Kitwana will lecture on “Criminal Justice and Hip-Hop: Policing the Hip-Hop Generation.” A booksigning for Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop will follow.” This presentation is part of the Clifford Symposium. Other presenters include The Welfare Poets. For more information: 802-443-3103.

11:30 am

October 6, 2006

Princeton, NJ

Princeton University. Bakari will appear on a panel entitled “Hip-Hop in a Post- 9-11 World.” Other featured guests include Cornell West (author of Race Matters), Jeff Johnson (BET Rap City’s Cousin Jeff), and Rosa Clemente (REACHip-Hop). For more information: 609-258-5494.

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October 18, 2006

Clarion, PA

Clarion University. Gemmell Student Center. Bakari Kitwana will participate in a panel entitled “Hip-Hop: I AM a Cultural and Economic Explosion.” Other panelists include, Lisa Ellis (president, Sony Urban Music), Roland Fryer (professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University), Marcyliena Morgan (professor, Department of Communications, Founder and Director of The Hip-Hop Archive, Stanford University), and William Branch (president, Cross Movement Records).  This panel is part of a day-long symposium on “Hip-Hop and the Politics of Morality. For more information contact Dr. Joann Washington at: jwashington@clarion.edu

10:00 am

October 18, 2006

Clarion, PA

Clarion University. Gemmell Student Center. Bakari will participate in a panel entitled “Hip-Hop: I AM Image, Identity and Moral Choices,” which features Akiba Solomon (author of Naked: Black Women talk about their bodies, hair, lips and other parts), Michael Geer (president, Pennsylvania Family Institute), Ronald Jackson (professor, Department of Communication, Pennsylvania State University and author of Negotiating the Black Body), and Karen Stevenson, MD (Board Certified Psychiatrist, Lewisburg Hospital). This panel is part of a day-long symposium on “Hip-Hop and the Politics of Morality. For more information contact Dr. Joann Washington at: jwashington@clarion.edu

2:00 pm

October 19, 2006

Washington, DC

Howard University. “An Evening With Bakari Kitwana.” A public interview with Bakari and dialogue about the State of The Hip-Hop Generation.

7:00 pm

October 26, 2006

Chicago, IL

Chicago State University. Bakari Kitwana will moderate a panel on “Hip-Hop and Social Justice: Hurricane Katrina and the Hip-Hop Community,” featuring Rosa Clemente  (REACHip-Hop), Omo Moses (Finding Our Folk), and Malaika Sanders (21st Century Youth Leadership Movement). This panel is part of the Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Black Writers Conference.  For more information contact: 773-995-3632.

10:00 am

November 1, 2006

Cleveland, OH

ACLU of Ohio. Bakari Kitwana will interview Haki Madhubuti (publisher of The New York Times bestseller The Covenant with Black America, with an introduction by Tavis Smiley). Madhubuti is founder of Third World Press, the Institute of Positive Education and author of Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous and 10 other books, including his most recent, Run Toward Fear. For more information contact Shakyra Diaz at 216-472-2200.

6:00 pm

November 2, 2006

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore Enoch Pratt Library. 400 Cathedral St. Wheeler Auditorium. Bakari Kitwana will lecture on “The Hip-Hop Generation.” For more information contact: 410-396-5430.

6:30 pm