Jun 23, 2008 (News & Notes ) — A new generation of activists have used hip hop music and culture to get young people into politics. But author John McWhorter has a new book, which argues that hip hop provides hindrances, not help, to black America.
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Hip Hop Bringing Political Change? Think Again
Jun 23, 2008 (News & Notes ) — A new generation of activists have used hip hop music and culture to get young people into politics. But author John McWhorter has a new book, which argues that hip hop provides hindrances, not help, to black America.A new generation of activists have used hip hop music and culture to get young people into politics.
But author John McWhorter has a new book — All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America — which argues that hip hop provides hindrances, not help, to black America.
McWhorter is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank.
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