This post screening conversation with Hip Hop legend Chuck D and guests will be simulcast here, beginning around 7pm. Only the conversation will be available for live streaming.

Chuck D of Public Enemy and one of the producers of Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World, explores Hip Hop’s political awakening over the last 50 years. With a host of rap stars and cultural commentators he tracks Hip Hop’s socially conscious roots. From The Message to Fight The Power 2020, he examines how Hip Hop has become "the Black CNN."

Join us as we celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop with a preview of Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World followed by a conversation with Chuck D and invited guests. The evening is produced in partnership with PBS.


About the Show
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World is an incredible narrative of struggle, triumph and resistance that will be brought to life through the lens of an art form that has chronicled the emotions, experiences and expressions of Black and Brown communities: Hip Hop. In the aftermath of America's racial and political reckoning in 2020, the perspectives and stories shared in Hip Hop are key to understanding injustice in the U.S. over the last half-century. Learn more about the series here.