Hip Hop for Change Conference: The Fight for Hip Hop in the Obama Era

This free third annual, day-long conference brings people together from all over the Bay Area. To use Hip-Hop as a liberating tool to empower, encourage, and develop artistry. This year’s focus is: The Fight for Hip Hop in the Obama Era. We will share a day filled with interactive workshops, keynote presentations, opportunities to organize, and a closing cypher.

This year we are fortunate to have Bakari Kitwana as our keynote:

Bakari Kitwana  is a journalist, activist and political analyst whose commentary on politics and youth culture have been seen on the CNN, FOX News (the O'Reilly Factor), C-Span, PBS (The Tavis Smiley Show) and heard on NPR. Kitwana is the author of three best sellers – The Rap on Gangsta Rap, Why White Kids Love Hip Hop, The Hip Hop Generation, and most recently, Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era.

Hip Hop as Liberation can create opportunities for expanding awareness about oppressions across race, class, geography, gender, sexuality, etc. Hip Hop at its most basic, foundational level, holds up and supports community, accountability to self, and others. As a global movement, Hip Hop builds connections across distance and difference. These philosophies have led Hip Hop for Change to explode a positive impact on participants, organizers, and our community.