EMERGENCE

Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago, and Rap Sessions are pleased to present Rap Sessions Community Dialogue: Is America Really Post-Racial?

April 16, 6:30pm. FREE. Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Avenue, 8th Floor., CHICAGO, IL.

Critically-acclaimed author, hip-hop activist and Spring 2009 Institute Fellow, Bakari Kitwana, partners with the Institute for the third consecutive year on a Rap Sessions Community Dialogue, this time addressing the question: "Is America Really Post-Racial?" Part of a national tour led by Kitwana, this series presents a diverse panel of leading artists, scholars and activists to engage youth and community leaders in candid, compelling conversations about the ways that race and democracy are being redefined in our national culture. Targeting the hip-hop generation that helped build early support for America's first Black president, this year's interactive townhall meetings debate the extent to which young Americans have opened a new chapter in American race relations.

Featured Panelists:

• Jabari Asim, Editor-in-Chief of Crisis Magazine, author of "The N-Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why"
• Lisa Fager Bediako, President and Co-Founder of Industry Ears, Inc.
• Timuel Black, Educator and social activist
• Invincible, Detroit-based hip-hop artist and activist
• Tricia Rose, Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, author of "The Hip-Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip-Hop--And Why it Matters"
• Moderated by Bakari Kitwana, Author of "The Hip-Hop Generation," co-founder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, and Spring 2009 Institute Fellow

ASL services available upon request. Please allow 48 hours advance notice.

For more information:
Tel: 312-369-8829
Web: www.colum.edu/institutewomengender
Email: institutewomengender@colum.edu