Here’s a list of some articles I found relating to the National Political Hip Hop Convention. Some of these articles are about the convention, some have interesting info about people involved with the convention.

This list will be updated as I come across more links to add. If you know of a link that needs to be added just leave me a comment and I’ll add it.

About the convention

1. List of some of the participants of the 2004 Convention.

2. The Convention Will Be Televised – Wiretap

3. Turning Outrage Into Power by NHHPC National Spokesperson, Malik Cooper

4. Hip-Hop Activism: Will They Come to Vote? By Don Hazen, Alternet.

5. Hip-hop and the ballot box ‘Idol’ fantasy: Will a new generation turn to politics? By Joshunda Sanders, SFGate.com

6. A Nation of Millions: Hip-Hop Convention seeks answer to what’s holding young America back by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Village Voice.

7. This Ain’t No Party by Jeff Chang, Alternet

8. HipHopDX article about the 2006 convention, 2006 NHHPC In Chicago: National Plan To Take Down The Man?

9. Really good interview by Davey D with Rosa Clemente and Baye Adofo-Wilson about the NHHPC, done prior to the 2004 Convention.

10. Brilliant take from a non-hip hop fan on the convention, The Emerging Hip Hop Revolutionaries

11. Great blog entries by Madhuri Singh, live from the convention part 1 and live from the 2006 Convention part 2, Campus Progress

12. Good piece by X-Clan/Blackwatch Movement Founder DJ Paradise with some photos, Real Hip-Hop Shines at National Political Hip-Hop Conference 2006

13. Some video I shot at the 2006 Convention of some b-boys from New Mexico

About people involved with the convention

1. Some info about Ras Baraka, 2004 Convention Chair

2. Lousiana Weekly article about Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, who served on platform committee for the 2004 National Political Hip Hop Convention.

3. Great interview with NHHPC Steering Committee member Troy Nkrumah, protege of Kwame Toure.

Articles that mention the convention. You may have to press “ctrl +f” to find the phrase “national political hip hop convention”

1. Great blog entry by the Soul Reverend about Hip Hop being based on an “honor” system, that may be at the root of violence that is often associated with the Hip Hop community.

2. Interesting mention in this American Medical Student Association House of Delegates 2004 Report, in which they propose tapping “into talents from medical student musicians and spoken-word artists to make music a vehicle for our messages” and “Communicating with National Political Hip Hop Convention organizers about this issue.”

3. Article that mentions the Convention in the context of Hip Hop activism.

4. Article by Shawn Ginwright, Toward a Politics of Relevance: Race, Resistance and African American Youth Activism, which mentions the convention.

5. Where Politics and Hip Hop Collide – Wiretap

6. Won’t Stop For Nothing – Wiretap interview with Jeff Chang

7. Bigger Than Hip-Hop by Glen Ford, Wiretap

8. Democracy Now! Interview with Davey D on Police Surveillance of Rappers, the National Hip Hop (Political) Convention and the 2004 Election

9. Thug Life Army Article about Aggressive Cops in Pittsburgh.

10. Hip-Hop Ready to be Counted, The Hiphop Archive

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