Advance Screening Part of a National Media Literacy and Responsibility Campaign
Rappers TALIB KWELI, The Roots’ Grammy-Award Wining Recording Artist BLACK THOUGHT and BET Executive Part of Panel that Challenges Young Consumers and Media Makers to Question Violent and Sexual Images in Hip-Hop Music
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ — A special preview screening of the groundbreaking new PBS documentary HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes connects young consumers, producers, artists, and other entertainment industry professionals to discuss key issues raised in the film: how do limited perceptions of masculinity play into a culture of violence? What roles do misogyny and homophobia have in hip-hop culture — as well as in wider mainstream cultures? And are the media and music industries really to blame? Part of a larger nation-wide campaign, the event will generate national conversation on an increasingly violent, materialistic and sexually explicit American culture using hip-hop culture as a point of reference.
WHO:
– Rapper, TALIB KWELI
– BET’s Vice President of News and Public Affairs, KEITH BROWN
– Grammy-award wining recording artist BLACK THOUGHT, of The Roots
– HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes filmmaker, BYRON HURT
– Emmy-winning MacArthur "genius" Fellow and executive producer of
HIP HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, STANLEY NELSON
– Dr. CATHY COHEN of University of Chicago’s Center for Race,
Politics and Culture — who will preview results from the
Center’s much-anticipated "Black Youth Project."
– Independent Lens, series producer, LOIS VOSSEN
WHAT: Special advance film screening of HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and
Rhymes — airing on the Emmy-Award winning PBS series Independent
Lens, February 20, 2007 — is part of a nation-wide community
engagement campaign featuring 20 leading community-based, public
media, and social service organizations designed to educate both
young consumers and media makers about issues of gender, race and
community values, support media literacy and encourage young men
and women to reflect on the impact of frequently violent and
sexual imagery on themselves, their relationships and their
communities. Participating organizations include the Boys and
Girls Clubs of America, Firelight Media, Youth Movement Records,
National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), The Center for
American Progress/Campus Progress, and more than a dozen others.
For more information on the campaign and the film, visit
itvs.org/outreach/hiphop/.
WHERE: Pacific Design Center/Silver Screen Theater
8687 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA
WHEN: 7:30 PM, Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Note: To schedule interviews in advance, please call Voleine
Amilcar at the above listed phone number.
Source: Independent Television Service
CONTACT: Voleine Amilcar, x244, or Dennis Palmieri, x256, of Independent
Television Service, +1-415-356-8383
Web site: http://www.itvs.org/outreach/hiphop
