this is what happened to hip hop...?
Image Nation
Granted, it's not hip hop per se, but it is a clear channel for...well, I won't sum it up. I'll let the website describe what they do. Here's a nice round-up taken from the site:
Our viewers thirst for more complex, realistic and imaginative portrayals of themselves. Imagenation quenches that thirst. We edify our viewers' imaginations and galvanize their spirits with cinema, Soul Cinema.
The founder of Image Nation, Moikgantsi Kgama, was on WNYC today and she was awesome. But one question that came up for me that I didn't feel was answered on the site or in her interview was, how does the organization relate to people who are not of color? Is Image Nation for everybody, or is it just for the "African diaspora" community (as Kgama puts it)? Maybe they've intended to leave that question unaddressed...
Granted, it's not hip hop per se, but it is a clear channel for...well, I won't sum it up. I'll let the website describe what they do. Here's a nice round-up taken from the site:
Our viewers thirst for more complex, realistic and imaginative portrayals of themselves. Imagenation quenches that thirst. We edify our viewers' imaginations and galvanize their spirits with cinema, Soul Cinema.
The founder of Image Nation, Moikgantsi Kgama, was on WNYC today and she was awesome. But one question that came up for me that I didn't feel was answered on the site or in her interview was, how does the organization relate to people who are not of color? Is Image Nation for everybody, or is it just for the "African diaspora" community (as Kgama puts it)? Maybe they've intended to leave that question unaddressed...
posted by alex at 8:54 AM
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ImageNation's primary goal is to provide people of color with more realistic images of themselves. Our secondary goal is to present the world at large with more realist portrayals of people of color. So, ImageNation is for anyone who is interested in diverse representations of the Black/Latino world. Thanks for your interest.
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