Hip Hop, HIV/AIDS, and African & African Diaspora Studies

The two-and-a-half-hour class sessions are part lecture and part group activities in which the Tulane students compile audio and visual aids with age-appropriate information to present to students, whom they visit later in the week. Among the topics of discussion are negative impressions of the hip-hop generation and ways to improve that harmful reputation. Hip-hop is about strategic coalition building, community organizing and social activism, says Lewis. It speaks for groups typically viewed as voiceless or not having much of importance to say.