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Thread ID: 14186 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-06-14
2004-06-14 21:08 | User Profile
[url]http://tinyurl.com/2ur9n[/url] Different beat, same struggle Hip-hop convention spotlights the renewed fight for civil rights Monday, June 14, 2004 BY JEFFERY C. MAYS Star-Ledger Staff Poet and activist Amiri Baraka sees similarities between the National Black Political Convention of 1972 in Gary, Ind., and the National Hip-Hop Political Convention that begins Wednesday in Newark.
The goal of the 1972 gathering was to create a political agenda for black Americans to continue the fight for basic civil rights. Several thousand black radicals, elected officials and activists gathered in the industrial city off Lake Michigan, which just a few years earlier had become one of the first major cities to elect an African-American mayor.
Thirty-two years later, Baraka's son, Ras, a Newark deputy mayor, is leading a similar charge as co-chairman of the hip-hop convention.
"We want to build a national organization with a national agenda of using hip-hop to organize people around the .................
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Here's another slant to this fellow.
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