The Hip-Hop Association and The United Nations Association’s Kurt Krausse.

Natalia Linares conducts interviews for Defuse News!


The Panelist look on in excitement

The Official United Nations Cipha!

MediaClectic recently took a trip down the north east corridor to our second home of Washington D.C., along with our comrades H2A: The Hip-Hop Association. The occasion was a quietly historic meeting of the minds between the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area and various Hip-Hop activist/culture-workers. The United Nations Week event focused on contributions of Hip-Hop culture to the mission of the UN. The panelist which included: Rev. Dr. James White (Hip-Hop Congress), Ebenezer Bond (World Up!), Andrew Ryan (Hip-Hop Matters), Mazi Mutafa (Words, Beats, and Life Incorporated, Tracy Press (Powerful Beyond Measure), and H2A’s own Martha Diaz demonstrated how Hip-Hop Culture is a global phenomenon born of community based movements working for positive change.
There were some interesting contributions from other attendees including a gentleman named Alvin Jones founder of Bamboozled Entertainment Television’s original Rap City program (remember the slightly annoying Chris Thomas?), who lamented over how his original mission for starting the show was eventualy lost within the Hollywood shuffle.

We conducted interviews with several participants, which you can catch exclusively during WBAI’s 29 hour Hip-Hop Takeover Marathon, on 99.5 FM for those in the New York/Tri-State area, and WBAI.org, for our global listeners. The program is entitled Global Hip-Hop: produced by The Hip-Hop Association’s Defuse News initiative on Saturday Nov. 11th, 8AM to 10AM.