Yes in My Backyard;
The Spook Who Sat by the Door;
Something the Lord Made;
Hip-Hop Beyond Beats and Rhymes;
Battle of Algiers;
Belly
Television
turn off that b.s......
Books
Black on the Block by Mary Pattillo; The N-Word by Jabari Asim; New York Rican From the Hip-Hop Zone by Raquel Rivera; Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky; We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity by Tommie Shelby; New BlackMan by Mark Anthony Neal; Pimps Up, Hos Down by Tracy Sharpley Whiting; Fighting for Us by Scot Brown; Total Chaos by Jeff Chang; Angry Black White Boy, by Adam Mansbach; Who Shot Ya? by Ernie Paniccioli; Plan B by Chester Himes; Knees of a Natural Man by Henry Dumas; Enemies: The Clash of Races by Haki Madhubuti; Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous by Haki Madhubuti; Wounded in the House of a Friend by Sonia Sanchez; Homegirls and Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez; From Plan to Planet: The Need for Afrikan Minds and Institutions by Haki Madhubuti; When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan; Strategies for Resolving Conflicts in Black Male/Female Relationships by LaFrancis Rodgers-Rose; Let the Circle be Unbroken by Marimba Ani; The Book of Coming Forth by Day by Maulana Karenga; Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery by Naim Akbar; The Pschopathic Racial Personality by Bobby Wright; In Love and In Trouble by Alice Walker; I Write What I Like by Steve Biko.
Heroes
Geronimo Ji Jaga; Kwame Nkrumah; El Hajj Malik El Shabazz; Fannie Lou Hamer; Mary McCloud Bethune;
I’m trying everyday to do my part to make the world a better place. My medium is what my long-time mentor, poet-activist Haki Madhubuti calls “the idea business,” where those of us who know battle daily for the hearts and minds of free thinking people across the globe who would resist the imperialistic madness of our time.
I try to write what hasn’t been written. I want to build with brothers and sisters who recognize race as a social construct (and some real ish too) across the nation and across the world who understand that together we can make the world a better place. My medium has been defined by many as hip-hop activism, scholarship and more.
AND FOR THE GOVERNMENT HEADS . . .
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. His 2002 book The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture, which focuses on young Blacks born after the Civil Rights Movement, has been adopted as a course book in classrooms at over 100 colleges and universities.
The Executive Director of Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip-Hop, which tours the nation conducting difficult dialogues facing the hip-hop generation, Kitwana published his first book, The Rap on Gangsta Rap in 1994. Since then he’s been the Editorial Director of Third World Press, Executive Editor of the Source and co-founder the first ever National Hip-Hop Political Convention, which brought over 4000 young people to Newark in 2004 to create and endorse a political agenda for the hip-hop generation.
A consultant on hip-hop for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kitwana is artist-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, where he teaches a course entitled “The Politics of the Hip-Hop Generation.” An active writer, his essays have appeared in the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Newsday, Savoy and the Progressive. For the last decade, he’s lectured and given keynote presentations at the nation’s leading colleges and universities, including Princeton University, Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of California – Berkeley, Columbia University and countless others across the country.
A native of Long Island, NY, he holds a B.A. and two Masters degrees (in English and Teaching) from the University of Rochester. Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop (Basic Books, 2005) is his most recent book. The New York Times called his 2002 book The Hip-Hop Generation, which is used as a coursebook on over 100 college campuses, “the leading scholarly work on the culture.”
Who I'd like to meet: Nelson Mandel
Denzel Washington
Bob Herbert
Assata Shakur
John Brown
I just uploaded some of the audio and pictures from my recent appearance in Los Angeles on The Wake Up Show with Sway & DJ King Tech. Check it out when you have a chance and thanks for listening!! :-D
Hi Mister Kitwana, it has been a year since I last contacted you about your book the "Hip Hop Generation" Are you going to be coming out with any new books anytime soon??????/ If so I cannot wait because your a fantastic AUTHOR!!!!!!! WRITE BACK PLEASE SIR
Just passing thru to show some love! I just uploaded a new tune called HEARTBREAKER to my page. Check it out when you have a chance! Peace & Blessings! :-)
Thank you for adding me as a friend. I hope you enjoyed my music. You can listen to more by going to www. ourstage. com on my myspace page. Peace and Blessings
It's been a minute since I've contacted you. What's been good with you? I'm sure you must be busy with the upcoming election and all. How was your trip to Japan?
Peace Bakari! I hope all is well. I am just dropping by to show some respect. It was an honor to have you at Trinity and to build. Will you be in New York sometime this summer? If so we should link up.
Check out some of my tracks and give me your opinion... Much Love, Zee
