For Immediate Release
4th Annual Bridging the Gap Conference
Hip Hop Made Me Do It?
February 22, 2008
BERKELEY, CALIF. - January 31, 2008
Brought to you by the Graduate Minority Students' Project of the Graduate Assembly at the University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Minority Student Project Coordinator
Graduate Assembly
UC, Berkeley
510-642-2876
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Goal of the Conference
The purpose of the 3rd Annual "Bridging the Gap: Keeping Hip Hop Alive From Old Skool 2 Hyphy " conference is to facilitate an intergenerational
dialogue between the hip hop generation and activists for civil rights
and black power issues to assist them in sharing resources, strategies,
and visions that will empower them achieve black reparations. The conference
also strives to build networks between different organizations and segments
of the black spiritual faith community. Few forums exist where African
Americans are provided the space to dialogue about the issues that matter
most to them. "Bridging the Gap" provides such a forum.
This conference sponsored by:
The Graduate
Minority Student Project of the Graduate
Assembly
This conference was co-sponsored by :
o African Initiative of American Friends Service Committee
o African Youth Exchange of AFSC
o Foundations for Our Nu Alkebulan/Afrikan Millennium (FONAMI)
o House of UNITY/One United Resource System
o Black Graduate Student Associations
o National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA)
o African Initiative of American Friends Service Committee
o African Youth Exchange of AFSC
o Foundations for Our Nu Alkebulan/Afrikan Millennium (FONAMI)
o House of UNITY/One United Resource System
o Black Graduate Student Association
o Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
o African People's Socialist Party
o International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement
o National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
o California Coalition for H.R. 40
o Black Radical Congress
o Pan African Network
o Jubilee Debt Cancellation Network
o Jericho Amnesty Movement (for Political Prisioners)
o P.O.C.C.
o BayLoc
