12/17/06 - Rap Icon to Present Martin Luther King Lecture at Trinity University

50=Cent · 12-17-2006, 07:48 AM

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 13, 2006 – Trinity University will honor the late Martin Luther King Jr. with a public lecture, by participating in a San Antonio march commemorating the slain civil rights leader, and with documentary and discussion on the effect of hip-hop and rap music on popular culture. The University’s annual MLK commemorative lecture will feature Chuck D, leader and co-founder of the legendary rap group Public Enemy, on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007, at 7 p.m. in Laurie Auditorium on the Trinity campus. It is free and open to the public.

Related events include participation by students, staff, and faculty in the annual San Antonio MLK March on Monday, Jan. 15, and the screening of a documentary titled “Beyond Beats & Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in On Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, in Northrup Hall Room 040.

The title of Chuck D’s lecture is “Music • Beyond • Lyrics • There is More to Music than What Sells.” Born Carlton Ridenhouer in Long Island, he is best known for redefining rap music in the 1980s and by incorporating the issues of race, rage, and inequality into his songs. His message to young people is to become activists, to think and act for themselves, and to have passion and conviction in what they do. He encourages students to get involved and to be leaders. He ties these themes into rap and hip-hop, contending that these genres originally were about creative expression.

To connect his topics with civil rights issues, he focuses on empowerment and speaks of his personal connection to MLK’s ideas for activism through song and music and reflects on growing up in the late 1960s and ’70s during a time of social upheaval.
He has hosted his own segment on the Fox News Channel and published a best-selling autobiography, Fight the Power. He also has been a spokesman for Rock The Vote, the National Urban League, and the National Alliance of African American Athletes. An advocate for free music downloads, he launched a multi-format Web site called Rapstation.com in September 1999 and two years later created an online, offline, and midline artist distribution channel through record label SLAMjamz. He went on to launch a radio station on the Internet, Bringthenoise.com. Chuck D and Public Enemy were named in the May 2004 issue of Rolling Stone magazine as one of the "50 most important performers in rock and roll history.”

To further explore the impact of hip-hop music on popular culture, Trinity has scheduled a screening of Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture for 5 p.m. in Northrup Hall Room 040 on the day after Chuck D’s lecture. The documentary examines representations of gender roles in hip-hop and rap music through the lens of filmmaker Byron Hurt, a former college quarterback turned activist. He interviews rappers Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes, and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. The film provides thoughtful dialogue from intelligent, divergent voices of rap artists, industry executives, rap fans, and social critics from inside and outside the hip-hop generation.

This event is free and open to the public.

Trinity has honored the memory of Dr. King, a slain civil rights leader, for decades and launched a speaker series in 1994. Students affiliated with the Trinity Multi-Cultural Network and members of the Black Student Union, as well as Trinity faculty and staff members, plan to join other residents of San Antonio in the annual MLK March through the community’s East Side on Monday, Jan. 15.

Any requests for special accommodations should be directed to Laurie Auditorium at 210-999-8119 at least 48 hours before the event.

For more information, contact Trinity’s Office of University Communications at 210-999-8406.

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InfamousQBC · 12-17-2006, 06:10 PM

Their's No One Betta Then Chuck D To Present That Lecture. R.I.P. To MLK

Zhiwai · 12-17-2006, 06:33 PM

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