Rap Sessions 2009: Is America Really Post-Racial? at Columbia College

Thursday, April 16, 2009
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Film Row Cinema, 8th Floor
1104 S. Wabash
Chicago, IL 60605

The panel will 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 panel will debate the extent to which young Americans have opened a new chapter in American race relations.

The panel will feature MC Serch, host of The White Rapper Show; Lisa Fager Bediako, founder of Industry Ears, Inc.; Jabari Asim, editor, The Crisis; Dr. Tricia Rose, author of The Hip-Hop Wars.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Campus Progress, the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, and Rap Sessions.

For more information, please email speakers@campusprogress.org