Hip Hop 50 Years Event: “U.N.I.T.Y.”: A Conversation with Shanita Hubbard
At Historic Bethlehem's Museum and Sites' 1869 Luckenbach Mill in downtown Bethlehem join us for an open and honest dialogue between author Shanita Hubbard and Sociology Professor Andrew McIntosh. McIntosh and Hubbard will be exploring themes found in Hubbard’s published writings and recent critically acclaimed book “Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women.” This night is a "50 Years Down the Line" event supported by the NCC Foundation Humanities grant. Free tickets are available here: https://www.historicbethlehem.org/experiences/series/conversation-with-shanita-hubbard/
Shanita Hubbard’s writing has helped foster complex discourse around intracommunity sexual violence, abuse within the Hip Hop community, and the complicated relationship between Black women and Hip Hop. Informed by her career as a professor and public social justice advocate, her work has been published in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Pitchfork, ESSENCE. Accordingly, she was featured in the 2020 HBO Max Documentary “On the Record” as an expert to provide commentary on the intersection of sexism and racism in America.
Hubbard and McIntosh are colleagues who have previously collaborated on three school wide discussions at NCC exploring Hip Hop culture entitled: "You Gotta Let Him Know" : Will the #MeToo Movement Impact Hip Hop Culture?", "Stans, Lacefronts and Getting Ratioed: Is There Such a Thing as Healthy Social Media?" and "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but it Might Be Live Streamed".
