Media Assassin and Brecht Event-NYC
Posted January 25, 2009 by k_c_ in Inspiration
I was just sent an event listing called Biggie, Brooklyn and the World at the Brecht Forum. The title and description are intriguing, and posted below, and what I found immediately inspiring was Harry Allen's blog, Media Assassin. His bio in the email is as follows
Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin, writes about race, politics, and culture for VIBE, The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, and has been doing so for over twenty years.As an expert covering hip-hop culture, he has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, on National Public Radio, MTV, VH-1, CNN, the BBC, and other information channels. Others know him for his long-time association with the seminal band Public Enemy, and for his widely-heard "cameo" on their classic record, "Don't Believe the Hype."
It gave me a few chuckles and a lot more to search thru.
Have Our Weary Feet Come to the Place for Which Our Fathers Sighed?
The Year of Living Sexually is a post about Nonfiction a program on WBAI.
The New Blackface of Fashion is what it appears.
and the first post I saw
Super Zero a link to Marvel's new create your own superhero!
OK, I did mention there is an event at the Brecht Forum, its Wednesday, Jan 28th, read below:
Biggie, Brooklyn and the World
w/Harry Allen and Michael Partis
Moderated by Anika Lani Haynes
Brecht Forum
451 West Street (Between Bank and Bethune)
212-242-4201
With the release of Notorious, once again the famed rapper NOTORIOUS B.I.G. has taken center stage in the consciousness of the hip hop generation. Tonight our panel of experts will examine the film as well as the living contradictions of Notorious B.I.G. How do we understand Biggie's relationship with Lil' Kim and Faith Evans inform conversations about overall relationship between Black men and women? How does Biggie's life play out hip hop in the age and crack? And finally in what ways does Biggie's career mark the end of hip hop era and the presence of Black death?Biggie, Brooklyn and the World will bring all of these elements together in a conversation on hip-hop, past, present and future.
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