Rosa Clemente

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Rosa Alicia Clemente is a 35-year-old, Bronx born, Westchester County raised, hip-hop journalist, activist, and community organizer. As a Black Puerto Rican she is dedicated to scholar-activism. It was her experiences at the University of Albany and Cornell University that led her to become a leading progressive voice for her generation.

Clemente has dedicated her academic work to researching national liberation struggles inside the US, with a specific focus on the Young Lords Party and the Black Liberation Army. While a student at SUNY Albany, she was President of the Albany State University Black Alliance and Director of Multicultural Affairs for the Student Association. At Cornell, she was a founding member of La Voz Boriken, a social/political organization dedicated to supporting Puerto Rican political prisoners and the independence of Puerto Rico.

Clemente has written for Clamor Magazine, The Ave. magazine, The Black World Today, The Final Call, and numerous websites. She has been the subject of articles in the Village Voice, The New York Times, Urban Latino, and The Source magazines and has appeared on CNN, C-Span, Democracy Now and Street Soldiers. In 2001 she was a youth representative at the United Nations World Conference against Xenophobia, Racism and Related Intolerance in South Africa and in 2002 was named by Red Eye Magazine as “one of the top 50 Hip-Hop Activists to look out for.”

In 1995 she developed Know Thy Self Media Messengers (KTSP,) presenting workshops and lectures at colleges, universities, high schools, and prisons. She has presented at over 200 colleges, conferences and community centers on topics such as: “African-American and Latino Intercultural Relations,” “Hip-Hop Activism,” “The History of the Young Lords Party,” and “Women, Feminism and Hip-Hop.” KTSP has produced three major hip-hop activism tours: Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win with M1 of dead prez and Fred Hampton Jr.; The ACLU College Freedom Tour with dead prez, DJ Kuttin Kandi, Mystic, and comedian Dave Chapelle; and the Speak Truth to Power Tour, a collaborative tour of award winning youth activists.

In 2003 Clemente helped form and coordinate the National Hip-Hop Political Convention that drew over 3,000 activists brought together to create a national political agenda for the hip-hop generation. She is currently focused on the impact of the 2008-09 elections, addressing issues of excessive use of physical force, intimidation and infiltration tactics by law enforcement officials and increasing the number of young women of color in leadership roles. She is co-founder of the R.E.A.C.Hip Hop, a media justice coalition and was recently a co-host of a weekly talk show, “Where We Live” WBAI 99.5FM NYC. She is working on a book with Cousin Jeff of BET about African-American and Latino relations.

Rosa Clemente on Jesus, Hip Hop and Kanye West http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2006/01/rosa-clemente-on-jesus-hip-hop-and.html

Russel Simmons, You Are Not Hip Hop http://www.daveyd.com/youarenothiphop.html