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Hip Hop Vote! Chris Brown & Rihanna

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Tags: Chris Brown, Hip Hop, HipHopGivesBack, Rihanna
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Hip Hop Vote! Do You Read To Your Children?

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Tags: children, Hip Hop, HipHopGivesBack, HipHopGivesBack.org, Read, Read To children, Vote
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HipHop History Month 2009

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Hiphop History Month 2009. -

Celebrate Hiphop History every day this month, spread the wisdom of true Hiphop to those that might not know or may have forgotten. Let them know “We IN HERE STILL”.

Celebrate the power of Hiphop, the power of self expression, the power of voice. This year the theme is “CELEBRATE the EMCEE in YOU”. This is a testament to the greatest Microphone Masters on the planet as well as a symbolism that “YOUR VOICE” makes a difference. Speak on it, be heard, be loud, be proud but always be in control.
Please email your drops to itshiphop4life@gmail.com or call our drop hotline 404 826 8497—> Let us hear “The Emcee in You”..shout, scream, spit a hot 16!

Coke La Rock (aka Coka La Rock) is an old school New York City rapper who is often credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop.

La Rock was a friend and musical partner of DJ Kool Herc, who himself is generally considered to have originated hip-hop music circa 1973. Like Kool Herc, La Rock lived in the Bronx by that time but had previously emigrated from Jamaica.[6] La Rock was an early presence at the legendary parties thrown by Herc in the South Bronx, the first to “rap” along to Herc’s DJ set, and ultimately an original member of Herc’s MC crew the Herculoids. According to Kool Herc, La Rock’s MC name had various iterations, beginning as “A-1 Coke” and then moving on to “Nasty Coke” before it was finalized as “Coke La Rock” (sometimes pronounced Coka La Rock).[7][8] (more…)

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Strike 4 Hunger “Ten 4 Ten” to Benefit Atlanta Food Bank

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Saturday November 14th, Samuel Media presents “STRIKE 4 HUNGER” at The Dolce/Ten Pin Alley in Atlantic Station to benefit the Atlanta Food Bank. Featured Music by DJ Judgemental.

Every strike bowled between 9 PM to 10 PM, 10 canned goods will be donated to the Atlanta Food Community Bank.

http://www.acfb.org

ACFB supports a wide range of people in need, from children to the working poor. Food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters and senior centers are among the agencies that receive product from the Food Bank and provide food and other critical resources for low-income Georgians who suffer from hunger and food insecurity. The Food Bank also operates several community projects to aid our agencies in community building, technical assistance and advocacy efforts.

Purchase advance tickets for $10 at

http://samuelmediavip.eventbrite.com/

Tags: Atlanta Food Bank, Bowling, charity, Community, DJ, Give Back, Hip Hop, Party With Purpose
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Kevin Powell

"My life-calling is to be a servant for the people, period. Money, fame, status, personal achievements, and all that means very little to me when pain and suffering are still real on this planet. I am interested in the powerless becoming powerful." - Kevin Powell

Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America's most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a charismatic speaker, leader, and a very good writer, Kevin Powell has the courage...to be fully human, and this will bring the deepest revolution of all." Internationally acclaimed scholar and social critic Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has called Powell "a mighty wind of fresh air." And of Kevin Powell, the writer asha bandele says, "When you consider the intelligence and breadth of Kevin Powell's writing and activism, you come to the conclusion that there may be no better spokesperson and representative for a generation that has too long been counted out."

Kevin Powell is a political activist, poet, journalist, essayist, hiphop historian, public speaker, and entrepreneur. A product of extreme poverty, welfare, fatherlessness, and a single mother-led household, he is a native of Jersey City, New Jersey and was educated at New Jersey's Rutgers University. Kevin Powell is a longtime resident of Brooklyn, New York, and it is from his base in New York City that Powell has published seven books, including his current title, Someday We'll All Be Free (Soft Skull Press). This new book is a collection of provocative essays on freedom, democracy, justice, and race in America, as inspired by Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 presidential election, and September 11th. Powell is set to publish two books in 2008, No Sleep Till Brooklyn, his second volume of poetry; and The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life. Additionally, Powell is at work on his childhood memoir, homeboy alone, slated for 2010, and The Kevin Powell Anthology (2011), which will highlight the first twenty-five years of his literary career. Indeed, he has written numerous essays, articles, and reviews through the years for publications such as Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence, Rolling Stone, The Amsterdam News, and Vibe, where he was a founding staff member and served as a senior writer, interviewing and profiling, among many others, General Colin Powell and the late Tupac Shakur. Most recently Powell has been a Writing Fellow for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, as well as a Phelps Stokes Fund Senior Fellow. And Powell is currently a 2008 Democratic candidate for the United State Congress in Brooklyn, New York (http://www.kevinpowellforcongress.org).

A gifted and highly sought after public speaker, Powell has lectured on multiculturalism, building corporate responsibility, American and Black American history, the life of Dr. King, civil rights, American politics and civic engagement, sexism from a male perspective, leadership, social activism, the state of hiphop, redefining American manhood, and being Black and male in America, among other topics, at hundreds of colleges and universities, community centers, prisons, religious institutions, conferences, and festivals, as well as in corporate settings. Furthermore, Kevin Powell routinely offers his insights on a variety of matters, to TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and internet outlets in America, and abroad.

A fixture on the pop culture landscape the past several years, Powell was a cast member on the first season of MTV's "The Real World"; hosted and produced programming for HBO and BET; written a screenplay; hosted and wrote an award-winning MTV documentary about post-riot Los Angeles; and was the Guest Curator of the Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage" which originated at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, and of which Powell was the exhibition consultant" the first major exhibit in America on the history of hiphop.

Of paramount importance to Kevin Powell, however, is his activism. He has been a leader in some form or fashion for over twenty years, dating back to his days as a teenager at Rutgers University. He was a participant in the student-led anti-apartheid movement, the drive to end racism in South Africa. He has been at the forefront of police brutality and racial bias cases. He has worked for years around voting rights. Powell is one of the most prominent voices in the hiphop generation, and he has organized a number of concerts, mc battles, rallies, and forums that stress the use of hiphop as a tool for social change. As a result of his own past personal struggles, contradictions, growth, and a commitment to therapy and healing, Kevin has become a very outspoken critic of violence against women and girls, of violence in general, and he has been at the forefront of the movement to redefine American manhood away from sexism and violence. Powell also plays a key role in the Black male development arena, having produced, the past few years, among other things, a 10-city State of Black Men Tour, numerous Black male think tank sessions, and Black and Male in America, a 3-Day national conference (http://www.blackandmaleinamerica.org). Powell has taught, mentored, and counseled in schools, camps, prisons, and on the streets of urban America. He produces an annual holiday party and clothing drive every December in New York City that benefits the needy. And Powell was a central figure in Gulf Coast disaster relief efforts, facilitating the delivery of goods and services to the affected regions, and being a cofounder of "Katrina on the Ground," an initiative that sent over 700 college students to work in the devastated region.

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