Roxboro House Roundtables

PhilaU Professor and Hip Hop Artist/Author Tim Welbeck performed and lectured on how hip-hop communicates the lived experiences of those who live in urban centers across the nation, particularly African American men living in major cities. He examined such phenomena such as abject poverty, drug culture, the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, police brutality, et cetera. The primary focus of the lecture and performance was to provide a foundation for understanding how urban policy initiatives shape the lives of people living in urban centers across the nation, particularly, but not limited to African American men. A significant portion of the lecture/performance focused on the relevance of hip-hop’s role in expressing the modern African American experience.