#HipHopEd Conference + Innovative Hip Hop News & Events
Plus some recent music releases you might like...
FROM THE E-DESK OF MANNY FACES
👋 Peace and love y’all. We had a great episode of Hip Hop Can Save America! this week (you’ll hear about it in a minute), and between that, my recent trip to Ireland for the European Hip Hop Studies conference, the upcoming #HipHopEd conference, and some other things I have brewing that I’ll announce soon, I’m feeling pretty inspired about our movement here to amplify all the ways Hip Hop music and culture can help uplift humanity.
So, I brought you some really interesting news items , as always, hand-curated with love, plus some upcoming events, Manny’s music picks, and even a new section, a JOB LISTING!
Thanks for allowing me into your e-space. If you find value in what I do, there will be several reminders ahead as to how you can help me keep doing it. 🙏
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#HipHopEd x Hip Hop Can Save America! A brilliant convo about HipHopEd: The concept, the movement, and the upcoming conference. [WATCH IT HERE]
📰 HIP HOP NEWS THAT ISN’T ABOUT DUMB SH*T
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🎨 Graffiti Can Be a Neighborhood Asset, If Cities Embrace It
“As graffiti morphs from real estate blight to urban amenity, Atlanta’s style writers are driving forces in a conversation about public art.”📞 I Recorded a Whole Hip-Hop Album on a Death Row Telephone
“In this new book excerpt, incarcerated rapper Alim ‘RRome Alone’ Braxton describes his early attempts to record vocals over a phone in the dayroom.”🍪 “Hip-hop” cookie shop stirs up racial controversy
From Manny: “Pay attention to who one of the investors is… 🤔”🎥 'It Was All a Dream' Shows the Early Days of Hip-Hop -- Warts and All
Filmmaker dream hampton discusses the old footage she found of Biggie, Snoop, Diddy, Lil’ Kim and more — and assembling it into a stunning fly-on-the-wall documentary of rap's Nineties heyday'This Ain't It': Pennsylvanians Slam Jay-Z's Roc Nation for School Voucher Push
"An out-of-state billionaire is pairing with a suburban Philadelphia one to try to destroy public education," said one critic. JESSICA CORBETT Jun 07, 2024 50📖 When Questlove says hip-hop is ‘history,’ he means it in more ways than one
Dr. A.D. Carson’s review of Questlove’s new book
RELATED: Dr. A.D. Carson on Hip Hop Can Save America!
RELATED: Manny Faces on Questlove’s “Hip Hop is truly dead” statement🕺 [Breaking] news: Diplomacy meets hip hop as 22 artists visit US
Hip hop ambassadors from 22 countries visited Washington, D.C., New York, including the Bronx, where hip hop was born, and North Carolina.‘BBL Drizzy’ Creator King Willonius On AI & Black Music
”This Is Unprecedented Territory.”
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📅 UPCOMING DOPE & INTERDISCIPLINARY HIP HOP EVENTS
June 15 [Yonkers NY]: Battle of the Boroughs breaking battle
💎 June 22 [NYC]: #HipHopEd Conference 👈 (Registration is now open!) *** 💎 FEATURED EVENT, PLUS, I’LL BE THERE! 🎉
July 9 - Aug. 30 [NYC]: Kids Breaking League Summer Break Intensive
Oct. 11-12 [Chattanooga]: Chattanooga Hip Hop Summit
Opens Sept. 8 [NYC]: FUTURA 2000: BREAKING OUT is a retrospective of this singular artist’s evolution from early graffiti art styles to his current practice of contemporary abstraction.
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JOB LISTINGS
We Do It 4 The Culture SEL curriculum program is hiring lesson designers.
(RELATED: Jamila Sams on Hip Hop Can Save America!)
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Thank you. 🙏 —MF
🆕 MANNY’S PICKS OF THE WEEK
There are plenty of places to find out about new music, but I’ll give a few picks here and there to help the cause.
Rumor has it, I have pretty good taste…
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