MCs: PLEASE read this email ALL THE WAY THROUGH as there is important information near the bottom about THE EARLY SIGN UP TIME for the PRELIMINARY ROUNDS of DA CYPHA MC BATTLE

WHO WE BE: HipHop Speaks is an outlet for the healthy exchange of social and political ideas related to the hiphop nation and beyond (as Dead Prez has stated, it is bigger than hiphop, after all), and led by activists/voices from the hiphop community. This particular program is entitled ALL HAIL THE QUEEN and the speakers will kick it on the state of women in hiphop and women's empowerment. So:

HipHop Speaks
presents

A Community Forum
& MC Battle

Friday, March 8, 2002
at the House of Justice
1941 Madison Avenue
New York City (Harlem U.S.A.)
between 124th Street & 125th Street
Take #2 or #3 train to 125th Street and walk East
Take #4, 5, or 6 train to 125th Street and walk West
If driving, take either the West Side Highway or the FDR Highway to 125th Street Exit

Doors open at 6:30PM
Admission is FREE

ROSA CLEMENTE...
Freedom fighter, journalist, organizer for the Dare 2 Struggle, Dare 2 Win Tour

RAS BARAKA...
Educator, activist, poet, May 2002 Candidate for City Council (Newark, NJ)

asha bandele...
Author of THE PRISONER's WIFE and Editor-at-large at ESSENCE

KEVIN POWELL...
Writer, activist, founder/chairperson of HipHop Speaks
Editor of the forthcoming book WHO SHOT YA? Three Decades of
HipHop Photography (Images by Ernie Paniccioli; HarperCollins, Nov. 2002)

Moderated by TONI BLACKMAN...Founder, Freestyle Union, U.S. HipHop Ambassador

        And on the one and twoz Battle DJ KUTTIN KANDI

HipHop Speaks is supported by PNB NATION

PART II: MAHOGANY BROWNE presents DA CYPHA MC BATTLE....

Hosted by POISON PEN, with music by DROOPIST DaRIDDLAH

The first 32 MCs to sign up at 6:00PM can get down with this battle.
UNNECESSARY CURSING, BLATANT DISRESPECT TOWARDS WOMEN, and the EXCESSIVE use of the N word may lead to disqualification. DA CYPHA MC BATTLE is about CONTENT, FLOW, and MIC SKILLS (VERBAL CREATIVITY).

This PRELIMINARY ROUND will run 6PM-7PM. The eight finalists MUST sit through the community forum. NO EXCEPTION TO THE RULES. The final rounds of competition will start immediately after the community forum.

DA CYPHA MC BATTLE is sponsored by Motown Records and Hudson Punch Productions

GIFTBAGS will be given away (cds, magazines, tee shirts)

Information tables are available for community-based organizations,
non-profits, and hiphop-related businesses. Please email or call us if you want to set up a table. We operate on a first come, first serve basis.

If you need more information you can contact us at HipHopSpeaks2001@aol.com
or by calling 212-539-6500.

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         July 1, 2001

GIL NOBLE TO APPEAR IN NEWARK FOR RAS BARAKA

  Thursday, July 26, 2001 THE FRIENDS OF RAS BARAKA are presenting GIL NOBLE, the best known Afro-American media personality, the  well respected Program Host, of "LIKE IT IS", ABC (Channel 7’s) Flagship Black program
Mr. Noble will speak on the topic of “BLACKS IN THE MEDIA.” He will make a presentation then answer questions from the audience in an open exchange on one of the critical topics facing Afro-America today. Particularly in  light of the undemocratic nature of the National Elections and the illegitimate method by which Bush-2 gained the US Presidency.
 The firing of Tavis Smiley, long-time BET host, the crisis at WBAI,  will also be a focus of discussion. Mr. Smiley will be coming in for the Friends later this year.
The Program will be held THURS, JULY 26, 01, 7PM, AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE, 188 IRVINE TURNER BLVD, AT 7PM. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE BY WRITING OR CALLING THE ABOVE ADDRESSES.
 Further information regarding this program should also be addressed to the above sources.

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REVOLUTIONARY ARTISTS AND CULTURAL WORKERS NEEDED TO AID RAS BARAKA'S CAMPAIGN IN NEWARK FOR COUNCILMAN- AT-LARGE, ELECTION DAY MAY 7, 2002.
But the woik done already beginned!!

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Ask poets to send us their schedules when they wd be available for diverse readings inside outside and at:
    Ras Baraka-Juba Dowdell's VERSE4VERSE ( Last Wed Each Month) Bridge Club 343 Washington St Nwk
8pm.  Rasjuabaraka@aol.com

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past:

Hip Hop Youth & Gang Forum

Thurs June 21, 01 8pm

Central High School
100 SUMMIT ST., Newark

AFENI SHAKUR (ex Black Panther, Tupac’s
Mother)
invited guests:  KRS-1, Sonia Sanchez, Sista Soulja, Amina Baraka. Amiri Baraka

contact 973-698-9504

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WED June 27, 01 (Last Wednesdays) 8pm

BRIDGE CLUB 343 Washington St.

"Verse 4 Verse" NEW POETS NEW POETRY produced by Ras Baraka & Juba
Dowdell

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KIMAKO’S BLUE PEOPLE

808 S.10TH ST. NEWARK, NJ.

(LAST SAT EVERY MONTH)

8PM 973 242-1346

Sat June 30 AMIRI & AMINA BARAKA &

Blue Ark: The Word Ship , Herbie Morgan,ts; Dwight West, V; Wilber Morris, b; DD Jackson, p; Pheeroan Aklaff,d

RAS BARAKA, POETRY

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