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Partial List of On-Screen Participants, In Order of Appearance Doug E. Fresh, rapper, KRS-ONE, rapper/activist Chris Lighty, CEO of Violator Records/Management M-1, Rapper Conrad Tillard, Hip-Hop Minister/Activist, Executive Director of Movement for CHHANGE (Conscious Hip-Hop Activism Necessary for Global Empowerment), NYC Busta Rhymes, Rapper Toni Blackman, Rapper D12, Rap Group Fat Joe, Rapper Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Cultural Critic Dr. James Peterson, Hip-Hop Scholar, Penn State University Kevin Powell, Author, Hip-Hop Historian/Activist Dr. William Jelani Cobb, Scholar and Author Mos Def, Rapper Talib Kweli, Rapper Chuck Creekmur, Hip-Hop Writer and Co-Founder of allhiphop.com Jackson Katz, Anti-Sexism Activist and Author Chuck D, Rapper/Activist Jadakiss, Rapper Asha Jennings, Spelman College Graduate/Activist Lauren Clark, Spelman Student/Activist Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning Performance Artist/Playwright Mikael Moore, Morehouse Graduate and Aide to Congresswoman Maxine Waters Sut Jhally, Scholar, University of Massachusetts Dr. Beverly Guy Sheftall, Scholar, Spelman College, Atlanta Russell Simmons, Hip-Hop Executive 50 Cent, Rapper Tim'm West, Rapper Emil Wilbekin, former Editor-in-Chief of Vibe Magazine Mark Anthony Neal, Author and Scholar, Duke University Corey Smyth, Hip-Hop Manager Carmen Ashurst-Watson, Scholar and former Def Jam Executive Stephen Hill, Senior VP of Music Programming, BET Clipse, Rap Duo
BYRON HURT (Producer/Director)Byron Hurt is the New Jersey-based producer of the award-winning documentary and underground classic, I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America and Moving Memories: The Black Senior Video Yearbook. Hurt, 37, is a former Northeastern University football quarterback and long-time gender violence prevention educator. For more than five years, he was the associate director and founding member of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading college-based rape and domestic violence prevention initiative for professional athletics. He is also the former associate director of the first gender violence prevention program in the United States Marine Corps. Hurt was the recipient of the prestigious echoing green public service fellowship in 1999, an award given to ambitious young activists devoted to creating social change in their communities. Over the past decade, Hurt has lectured at more than 100 college campuses and trained thousands of young men and women on issues related to gender, race, sex, violence, music and visual media.SABRINA SCHMIDT GORDON (Editor/Co-Producer)Sabrina Schmidt Gordon has been committed to educational, cultural and social advocacy programming for over a decade. Her editing debut garnered an Emmy for WGBH's Greater Boston Arts series. She has worked in both producing and editing capacities on numerous award-winning documentaries for public television and cable and also collaborates with non-profit organizations to create video programs. Most recently, she worked with Witness, an organization founded by Peter Gabriel that trains activists around the world to use video as a tool for social change. Gordon is also the Producer and Director of 180 Days, a documentary about the NYC Teaching Fellows Program, and Roughstars, a profile of the band at the forefront of the “rock and bounce†music scene in New York City.STANLEY NELSON (Executive Producer)Stanley Nelson, a 2002 MacArthur “genius†Fellow, is Executive Producer of Firelight Media, a not-for-profit documentary production company dedicated to giving a voice to people and issues that are marginalized in popular culture. His 2003 film, The Murder of Emmett Till, was broadcast nationally on PBS’s American Experience and Nelson went on to win the Primetime Emmy for Best Directing for nonfiction; the Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival; a coveted award from the International Documentary Association; and the highest honor in broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody award, among many others. His 2004 film, A Place of Our Own, a semi-autobiographical look at the African American middle class, debuted at Sundance and aired on Independent Lens. His most recent film is Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley; The Will to Change, bell hooks; Makes Me Wanna Holla, Nathan McCall; I May Not Get There with You: The Real Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Eric Dyson; Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins; Race Matters, Cornel West
My immediate world: My mother and father, Taundra, my sister; Greg Hunter, Heru Nefera Amen - Athletes: Muhammad Ali, Paul Robeson, Venus and Serena Williams - Civil Rights: Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, MLK, Jr., Angela Davis, Medgar Evers, Assata Shakur, Nat Turner, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisholm, Nelson Mandela ... basically, any man, woman or child who lived, died, or sacrificed to free the minds, bodies, and souls of black people. Film: Marlon Riggs, Michael Moore, Andrew P. Jones, Orlando Bagwell, Stanley Nelson, Yvonne Smith, Shola Lynch - Music: Bob Marley, KRS-One, Dead Prez, Nas, Talib Kweli, Common, The Roots; Modern day activists: Rosa Clemente, Kevin Powell, Jackson Katz, Ras Baraka, Monifa Akinwole-Bandele, April Silver; Scholars: Michael Eric Dyson, bell hooks, Gail Dines, Tricia Rose, Cornel West, Jelani Cobb, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Sut Jhally, James Peterson