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Hip Hop Can Save America! 3.0 - An Update From Manny Faces
On this brief update episode, creator and host Manny Faces talks about what's next for the Hip-Hop Can Save America! podcast. (HINT: It has to do with going live!) Hip-Hop Can Save America! with Manny Faces is a Manny Faces Media production, in association with The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy. Link...
News Beat's Exclusive Interview With Dr. Cornel West
"If our democracy is to survive, the empire must be dismantled.” That’s what Dr. Cornel West told Manny Faces and his colleagues at News Beat in an exclusive, wide-ranging interview in which he talked about dismantling systems of oppression, uplifting the poor and working class, ending America’s mi...
Hip Hop x The Black Voice x Academia with Dr. A.D. Carson
Dr. A.D. Carson, who is Associate Professor of Hip Hop at the University of Virginia, received quite a bit of well deserved acclaim for his dissertation, “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions,” which was delivered as an exceptional rap album. But first and foremost, AyDeeThe...
Hip Hop Educator, Journalist & Curator: Mikal Amin Lee
Mikal Amin Lee is a three time visitor to the show, which isn’t a surprise when you learn about all he does. As an artist, he’s toured the world and dropped dozens of projects and features. As an educator, he’s taught and lectured about Hip Hop pedagogy and anthropology, as a writer and essayist he...
The Far Right Infiltration of Hip Hop
Rumble, DJ Akademiks and the hidden danger of platforming so-called "Hip Hop" provocateurs
Hip Hop x Philanthropy with Mazi Mutafa of Words, Beats & Life
Words, Beats & Life is a Hip Hop non-profit founded back in 2002. In its 20+ years, it has evolved and expanded, offering classes, workshops, showcases, festivals and conferences, not to mention creating the first peer-reviewed academic Hip Hop journal, and now, anointing the first ever 'rap la...
Hip Hop, Entrepreneurship & Rapping Dinosaurs w/ Zeps, Creator of Children's Book Series Rhymosaurs
Zeps is an independent rapper / Hip Hop artist / event host from Brooklyn, New York who has brought his unique brand of artistry around the world, and into multiple business and entrepreneurship settings. While he continues to make music, his current focus is expanding the Rhymosaurs children's boo...
Hip Hop Theater with Hip Hop Cinderella's Rona Siddiqui and Brittany Nicole Williams
Hip Hop Cinderella is a modern -- and futuristic -- twist on the classic tale, complete with rap battles, a brilliantly feisty and courageous Cinderella, and yea, an evil stepmother and all that too. But several important factors separate this version from the original, and it seems to make for a f...