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Hip Hop Against Hunger
Loading ...What does hip-hop have to do with increasing social awareness and alleviating hunger? A diverse group of Washington University students and campus groups will join together to answer this question during “Hip-Hop Against Hunger: A Week of Cultural and Social Awareness,” on Nov. 9-15.
Sophomore Celso White, senior John Huang and junior Monis Khan never expected that a simple discussion they had about hip-hop on campus last April would develop into such a large event. After the dissolution of Wash. U.’s chapter of Hip-Hop Congress, a club that promoted social and political awareness through hip-hop, the students sought to revive this form of dialogue on campus.
“A lot of people see hip-hop skewed by the media as talking about rapping and getting money. I really wanted to go back to the true essence of hip-hop that started back to when it was first developed,” Huang said. “It was…about political action and just expressing yourself through music, attitude, dance, artwork and everything.”
They came up with the idea to bring Rap Sessions, a travelling panel of prominent hip-hop scholars, to speak on the question “Is America Really Post-Racial?” at Wash. U.
