LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT - Screening and discussion (Event Over)
- When:Wed 2/27/08 (7PM)
- Where: The Brecht Forum
- Address: 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets) New York, NY Map
- Cost: $6 - $15 suggested donation
Editors' Take
A documentary that investigates the intersection between hip-hop and racial politics, with help from Snoop Dogg, Chuck D, and KRS-One.
This feature length documentary showcases hip hop's ties to America's social and political policies over the last 30 years. Even before hip hop, black music artists have been at the forefront of civil rights and black power movements of the 60s and 70s.
See how those movements were destroyed by the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover and witness rap's birth from those movements and its own progression from music heard at block parties to its lyrics being debated in the halls of congress.
Letter to the President includes interviews with KRS-One, 50 Cent, Damon Dash, Dick Gregory, Amiri Baraka and more. Snoop Dogg narrates.
Following the screening three prominent artists and activists will discuss "Obama-mania" and the current state of the "hip-hop nation."
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