Description: The purpose of this panel is to put Hip Hop (the culture, the industry and the academic discipline) in conversation with the larger theme of Reclamation that links enslavement to the criminal justice system; the current right against Black land dispossession; cultural exploitation, appropriation, and erasure; and other elements of the Black Freedom Struggle.

Question: Almost two decades ago, Jeffrey Ogbar wrote about the Hip Hop Revolution What is the state of that Revolution/Movement in the fifth decade of the culture’s history?

Panelists:

Corey Miles - Assistant professor of sociology; Tulane University

Charity Clay - Assistant professor of Sociology; Xavier University of Louisiana

Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey- Associate professor of Political Science; Georgia State University