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In Honor of Black Liberation Month,
The Stanford Bookstore presents:
"Gangsta Rap, Crisis, and the Civil Rights Movement"
An abandoned generation turned trash into cash, but in the process did they sell their soul? Did the deaths of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious BIG have the same impact on our generation as those of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King?"
with authors CLAYBORNE CARSON and CHEO HODARI COKER.
This event is co-sponsored by The Commonwealth Club, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Projects, and the African & African Studies Program at Stanford.
Cheo Hodari Coker — "The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Notorious B.I.G."
CHEO HODARI COKER is a hip hop journalist turned Hollywood screenwriter. His writing has appeared in VIBE, Spin, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Village Voice, Premiere, Details, The Face, Rolling Stone, Essence, The Source, XXL, The Bomb Hip-Hop Magazine, URB, and Rap Pages. He has worked on feature film scripts about Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Marion Barry for Warner Brothers, MTV Networks, and HBO.
Cheo received his B.A. in English from Stanford University in 1994, and was a writer for the Stanford Daily.
Clayborne Carson - "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade"
"The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr." has become the definitive record of the most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts of one of America's best-known advocates for peace and justice. "Threshold of a New Decade, Volume V" illustrates the growing sophistication and effectiveness of King and the organizations he led while providing an unparalleled look into the surprising emergence of the sit-in protests that sparked the social struggles of the 1960s.
Clayborne Carson holds a PhD from UCLA, and currently is a professor of History at Stanford University. He is the director and executive editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University.