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RAKIM<\/h3>\n\n

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Michael Eric Dyson<\/h3>\n\n

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LaTosha Brown<\/h3>\n\n

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Cliff Albright<\/h3>\n\n

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Bun B<\/h3>\n\n

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Dame Dash<\/h3>\n\n

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Jasiri X<\/h3>\n\n

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DESMOND MEADE<\/h3>\n\n

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BROTHERS GONNA WORK IT OUT:
\nA SUMMIT ON BLACK MEN & THE VOTE<\/h1>

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3:00 PM EST\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Intro DJ set by Davey D Cook<\/strong><\/p>\n

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3:10 PM EST\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Introduction by Hosts Jasiri X & Miracle Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n

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3:15 PM EST\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opening Remarks from Cliff Albright & LaTosha Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Prison Industrial Complex: Are Reforms Enough?<\/strong>
\nThe leading parties have their views on the disproportionate police killings\/incarceration rates, prison reform, returning citizens, and we have ours. Black men speak about how these policies affect their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yusef Salaam, M1 of Dead Prez, Desmond Meade, Kwabena Nixon
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Toussaint Losier<\/strong><\/p>\n

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4:25 PM EST\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FREESTYLE SESSION #1<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Separating Donald Trump the Entertainer From<\/strong><\/p>\n

Donald Trump the Politician<\/strong><\/p>\n

presentation by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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4:35 PM EST\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Musical performance by Kemba<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Money, Power and Respect<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Black men share first-hand reflections on the job crisis, unemployment rates, the racial wealth gap, tax brackets and other economic issues affecting Black men voters.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Professor Griff, Dame Dash, JR Fleming, Tef Poe
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Conrad Tillard<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Defunding The\u00a0 Police<\/strong><\/p>\n

A conversation between Pastor Mike McBride<\/strong> and Bakari Kitwana<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Black Male Charismatic Leadership And The Hip-Hop Distraction<\/strong><\/p>\n

This panel considers the questions, what organizations and efforts represent a true Black political leadership, what is the role and impact of Hip-Hop male celebrity activism in electoral politics (Kanye, Diddy, Charlamagne the God, Ice Cube), and at what point do political party insider interests and talking points depart from a Black political agenda?<\/p>\n

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Bun B, Dayvon Love, Terrence Muhammad, Lord Jamar, Mondale Robinson
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Talib Kweli<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Through its music, activism and political engagement, Hip-Hop has always placed racism and racial disparities in the spotlight\u2014from Chuck D, KRS-One, Queen Latifah, Ice Cube and Geto Boys to Sista Souljah, Tupac, Nas, Nipsey Hussle, Kendrick Lamar, J Cole and many more. The persistence of these issues is at the heart of why many in Hip-Hop have been critical of voting as an end-all be-all solution.<\/p>\n

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Dave Mays<\/b> is a media and branding entrepreneur who has specialized in Hip-Hop music and its cultural impact over the past 30 years. Mays founded The Source<\/i> magazine out of his Harvard dorm room in 1988 as a single-page newsletter. In the 1990\u2019s, The Source<\/i> grew into the #1 selling music magazine on newsstands in the world, and was famously dubbed the \u201cBible of Hip-Hop\u201d by Public Enemy\u2019s Chuck D. Mays also created the first awards show dedicated to Hip-Hop, The Source Awards<\/i>, which set ratings records on both the UPN and BET television networks. In 1999, Mays created The Source Youth Foundation, which raised over $1 million to fund programs and organizations across the country using Hip-Hop to effectively reach at-risk, inner-city youth. Mays created the first national Hip-Hop political summit (\u201cA Special Summit On Social Responsibility In The Hip-Hop Industry\u201d) in 2000 with Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network, as well as the first independent social\/political action organization for the Hip-Hop industry, The Hip-Hop Action Network. During his 18 years of growing and running the company, The Source<\/i> magazine became an institution in the field of Hip-Hop, helping to empower and influence a culture that today pervades everything from sports to fashion, film, television, technology, education, language and more. In 2007, GQ<\/i> magazine called The Source<\/i> one of the \u201c27 Things that Changed Men\u2019s Lives\u201d over the last 50 years.<\/p>\n

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Bakari Kitwana<\/b>\u00a0is an internationally known cultural critic, journalist, activist, and thought leader in the area of hip-hop and Black youth political engagement. The Executive Director of Rap Sessions, which for the last fifteen years has conducted over 100 townhall meetings around the nation on difficult dialogues facing the millennial generation, Kitwana has been the Editor-in-Chief of\u00a0The Source<\/i>\u00a0magazine, the Editorial Director of Third World Press, and the co-founder of the 2004 National Hip-Hop Political Convention. The author of the groundbreaking books\u00a0The Hip-Hop Generation<\/i>\u00a0(2002) and\u00a0Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop<\/i>\u00a0(2005), Kitwana is co-editor of the new book\u00a0Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government For the People<\/i>\u00a0and the collaborating writer for pioneering hip-hop artist Rakim\u2019s recently released\u00a0Sweat The Technique: Revelations on Creativity From The Lyrical Genius<\/i>. He was recently named the 2019-2020 Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellow at Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, where he is curating the “Hip-Hop and Presidential Elections Video Archive,” an archive of over thirty national townhall meetings he convened with hip-hop thought leaders during the 2004, 2012 and 2016 Presidential Elections.<\/p>\n

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LaTosha Brown<\/b> and Cliff Albright<\/b> are the co-founders of Black Voters Matter Fund<\/b> (and BVM Capacity Building Institute), which builds community and organizational capacity related to Black voting power. BVM received national attention in 2017 when they helped mobilize Black voters during the US Senate Race between Doug Jones and Roy Moore in Alabama. In 2018, the BVM team travelled throughout seven southern states in the \u201cBlackest Bus in America\u201d energizing voters and exposing voter suppression. They have continued this mission leading up to the 2020 Election on the ground during primary elections in Georgia and Kentucky, while raising a call to action around voting rights. They have appeared on major television news outlets like CNN and MSNBC and in national newspapers including The New York Times<\/i>, The Washington Post<\/i>, USA Today<\/i>, and others.<\/p>\n

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