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Featuring The Reminders, Linqua Franqa (Mariah Parker), Rennie Harris, and Sacramento Knoxx.听听Moderated by Michael Jeffries, Wellesley College.

This presentation is part of Hip-Hop in Times of Pandemic and Protest,听a series of events in March that explore the music, politics, performance, and pedagogy of Hip-Hop.

The event took place on Wednesday, March 17th at 6:00 MST online. 听The event recording is presented below.

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is a hardworking interdisciplinary artist with strong roots in Detroit from the southwest side. He produces a sound of electronic, indigenous, ghettotech, afro-latino, hip hop, soul, and rhythm & blues.听

Knoxx's versatile background with different forms of music听allows him to blend traditional and contemporary styles creating dynamic storytelling experiences with live music performances, dancing, and听video projections that take audiences on a participatory journey and a creative experience. Currently he shares interactive music performances, blending captured moments in life and听creative imagery through large projection motion graphics. Building from raw experience and grit his works sends vibrations to help assemble the worlds we want to live in.

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听is part of a new wave of young women of color entering politics. She first made headlines after being sworn in as an Athens-Clarke County Commissioner, at age 26, with听her hand on a copy of听The Autobiography of Malcolm X听held by her mother. Photos of her taking the oath went viral, highlighting the growing numbers of millennial Black women making their voices heard in local politics nationwide.听

Mariah is also openly queer, a hip-hop artist (her stage name is Linqua Franqa), a PhD candidate in linguistics at the University of Georgia where she is also a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, and a community organizer dedicated to transformative politics and civic engagement. As County Commissioner, she is focusing on creating economic stability and racial justice as well as criminal justice reform and raising the minimum wage.

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A rare and remarkable musical duo with undeniable magical chemistry, transcend the bounds of expectation to uplift and entertain.听They seamlessly blend razor sharp rhythms and raw, soulful vocals with reggae-tinged听hip-hop beats to highlight their relevant and inspiring messages.听The couple shares a partnership in both music and life as Samir and Aja have been married for over a decade.听

The Reminders have been recognized and applauded for their work internationally through concerts, tours, music awards, TV and radio appearances. They have听shared the stage with artists such as Snoop Dogg, Nas, and听Big Boi听and听have toured听with Ms. Lauryn Hill.听

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"Harris is the most respected - and, to my knowledge, the most brilliant Hip-hop choreographer in America鈥� ~The New Yorker~听听

"The Basquiat of the US. Contemporary dance scene, Rennie Harris听has literally embodied the history of hip-hop dance." 听~London Times~听

In 1992听听founded the Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater, a street dance company dedicated to preserving and disseminating Hip-hop culture. Credited with creating the term, 鈥淪treet Dance Theater,鈥� and coining the term, 鈥淗ip-hop Concert dance,鈥� Harris鈥� first evening-length work entitled 鈥淩ome & Jewels鈥澨齬emains the longest touring hip-hop dance theater work in American history and has been the recipient of three Bessie Awards, four Black Theater Alvin Ailey Awards, a Herb Alpert award, and a nomination for a Lawrence Olivier Award (UK). 鈥淩ome & Jewels鈥� has performed for sold-out audiences nationally and internationally. 听Harris is known for bringing "social" dances and styles to the "concert" stage, creating a cohesive dance style that finds a cogent voice in the theater.听听He is featured in Rose Eichenbaum鈥檚 Portraits of America鈥檚 Great听Choreographers听with dance legends such as Carmen de Lavallade, Judith Jamison, Fayard Nicolas and Gregory Hines.听Rennie Harris was awarded a Master of African American Choreography Medal from the Kennedy Center, was voted one of the most influential people in the last one hundred years of Philadelphia history, and has been compared to twentieth-century dance legend Alvin Ailey and Bob Fosse. He is a United States Artists Rose Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, PEW Charitable Trust Fellow, USA Artist of the Year Fellow, and he served as an ambassador of Hip-hop/Street dance for President Ronald Reagan (1986). In 2012 he served as an ambassador of Hip-hop for President Barack Obama in the Middle East.听In addition, Harris is a recipient of the Palm Desert Festivals Lifetime Achievement Award,听Dance Magazine鈥檚听Living Legend Award and in 2020 he received the听Doris Duke Artist Award.听

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is Dean of Academic Affairs, Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics, and Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and works at the intersection of race, culture, and politics. Dr. Jeffries is the author of three books. Behind the Laughs: Community and Inequality in Comedy听(Stanford University Press, 2017) explores the world of professional comedy, where social and professional demands force artists to build strong communities in an industry divided along lines of race, class, and gender. Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America听(Stanford University Press, 2013)听uses Obama's presidency to demonstrate how race relies on other social forces, like gender and class, for its meaning and impact. Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop听(University of Chicago Press, 2011)听puts the spotlight on hip-hop fans and describes how everyday listeners define hip-hop and use it in their lives.听Dr. Jeffries has published dozens of essays and works of criticism in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Boston Globe, and has been interviewed by The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, and other outlets.

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