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Each episode opens with Hip Hop news that isn’t about dumb sh*t: reporting and analysis that looks past gossip and entertainment headlines to examine how Hip Hop intersects with education, mental health, civic life, media, and systems change.
From there, the show features in-depth conversations with artists, educators, journalists, researchers, and cultural workers who are applying Hip Hop as a tool for learning, healing, organizing, and innovation.
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This week’s show welcomes poet and scholar Imani "Lyrical Faith" Wallace to preview the upcoming Black AF (Artistic Freedom) Conference, coming up on Feb. 21 at UMass Amherst (RSVP: https://www.bit.ly/blackaf2026rsvp).
We'll also speak with radio and podcast veteran TK Dutes about her efforts to highlight community-based reporting from on the ground in Minneapolis.
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On each showm, creator and host Manny Faces delivers:
- Expanded reporting and commentary
- Occasional Field Notes–style segments
- Guest co-hosts and rotating perspectives
- Deeper dives into how culture operates as real-world infrastructure
Hip Hop is not just music or identity. It is one of the most sophisticated problem-solving cultures of the last fifty years — and this show is about taking that seriously.
🔴 Live (mostly) weekly
🎙️ Interviews and clips released separately
📚 Hosted by Manny Faces, author of the Cornel West-endorsed book, "Hip Hop Can Save America! Inspiration for the Nation from a Culture of Innovation"
For more info on all this, including the free HHCSA! newsletter, visit https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.com
For more about Manny Faces, visit https://www.mannyfaces.com
To support this important, independent cultural journalism, https://www.patreon.com/mannyfaces
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HIP HOP CAN SAVE AMERICA!
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