from training.npr.org: https://training.npr.org/sources/bakari-kitwana/
Bakari Kitwana is a cultural critic, journalist and activist specializing in hip-hop, youth culture and Black political engagement. He’s the executive director of Rap Sessions, which has conducted over 150 townhall meetings around the nation on issues facing the hip-hop and millennial generations.
Among Kitwana’s books are Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop and The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. He collaborated with hip-hop artist Rakim’s 2019 book Sweat The Technique: Revelations on Creativity From The Lyrical Genius.
Previously, he was editor in chief of The Source and the Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow at the W.E.B. Dubois Research Institute / Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He was editorial director of Third World Press and a senior media fellow at The Jamestown Project. Kitwana co-founded the first ever National Hip-Hop Political Convention.
Expertise: Hip-hop activism, youth culture, Black political participation, millennial issues
Location: Westlake, Ohio
Email: bakari@bakarikitwana.com
Phone: 440-779-9893
Twitter: @therealbakari
Heard on On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Hip-Hop and Politics
Is this source outdated? Email us.