Nominations are now being accepted for HHH Magazine’s 1st Annual Women of Power Honors Ceremony!!! Honoring and Recognizing women around the world who are doing amazing things. Youth will also be celebrated with multiple scholarship awards presented and more!
Peace, I am a project manager and program developer. I create Hip-Hop education and arts programs geared towards positive child and youth development, as well as grant and proposal writing. I facilitate workshops on team building and youth & women’s empowerment… for more information… click on the link below…
Hip Hop Culture is a reverberation of centuries-long resistance to oppression by Black and Brown people in the Americas. Born in the Bronx from meager beginnings; emerging from the ghetto streets plagued by poverty and violence, Hip Hop is now a medium that empowers people across the globe. However, the Hip Hop Industry and, to some degree, the world of Hip Hop Education are no longer held accountable to the people. This Program seeks to reconnect the most influential parts of Hip Hop with the streets it was born from.
– Zulu King K~Swift
The Hip-Hop Pedagogy Community Education Workshop Series is designed to promote the multidisciplinary pedagogy of Hip-Hop Culture. Recognizing Hip-Hop as a major influence on youth culture today, this workshop series will inspire participants through the Five Elements of Hip-Hop Culture. Workshops will expose families to vital resources and services that will enable them to build up themselves and surrounding community.
– Zulu Queen Benu Ma’at
Location: East Bronx Academy Community School 1716 Southern Blvd, Bronx, New York 10460
Directions: Uptown #2 and #5 Trains to 174th Street Stop
For More Information and to Sign Up for The Hip-Hop Pedagogy Community Education Workshop Series Contact:
The Phoenix Queens of the Nation @ phoenixqueensofthenation@gmail.com or Contact Zulu Queen Benu Ma’at @ benu.maat@gmail.com
Program Duration: 6 weeks Beginning Friday March 13th and Ending Friday May 1st
Workshop Series is Free And Open to the Public… All Ages Are Welcome!!!
March Dates and Times:
3/13, 3/20, 3/27 5pm – 9pm
April Dates and Times:
4/3, 4/4, or 4/10, 4/11 – Spring Break Field Trip – (Details Announced During Workshop)
4/17, 4/24 5pm – 9pm
May Dates and Times:
Program Final Project
Elements of Culture: Art Showcase and Open Mic
5/1 5pm – 9pm (Time Subject to Change)
The 2nd Annual At-Risk Intervention & Prevention Coference is designed to provide the Lehman College community with the opportunity to have an open dialogue with community activists and organizations about issues that effect our communities. Topics discussed will be but are not limited to:
1) Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence
2) Homelessness
3) Police Brutality
4) Youth Advocacy
5) Youth Criminalization
6) Re-Entry Population
7) Mass Incarceration
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Program Overview
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Breakfast Meet & Greet – Opening Remarks
9:30am – 10:30am
Myriah Rose
Host
Lehman College Alum
ClassAction Student Group Alumni Coordinator
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At-Risk
Intervention & Prevention
Panel Discussion
10:30am – 12:00pm
Marika Turano
Director/Producer
“The Word Is Love”
A Documentary Film
Panelist
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Zulu Malika Benu Ma’at
ClassAction Student Group
Founding President/Program Coordinator
UZN Dept. of Community Affairs
Program/Project Coordinator
UZN Chosen Chapter 33
Community Affairs Coordinator
Panelist
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Daniel “Majesty” Sanchez
Justice Committee:
Bronx Cop-Watch Coordinator
UZN Chosen Chapter 33
Panelist
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Brother Tarik
UZN Department of Community Affairs
Original Black Panther Party NYC
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Jason Jayology
Lehman College Alum
Actor, Director, Producer & Writer
“Price of Silence”
Panelist
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Amir Varick
Lehman College Alum
Social Justice Activist
Panelist
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At-Risk Intervention & Prevention Luncheon
Special Presentation By
Marika Turano
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Elements of Culture:
Art Showcase & Open Mic Session
2:00pm -5:00pm
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Featured Artist:
Imani Vidal
Stolen Lives and Resurrection Photographic Experience
“Stolen Lives and Resurrection -The Impact of Police Brutality in the Bronx” is a photographic experience by photographer and Bronx resident Imani Vidal. It features five mothers: Constance Malcolm mother of Ramarley Graham, Ana Cuevas mother of Reynaldo Cuevas, Juanita Young mother of Malcolm Ferguson, Iris Baez mother of Anthony Baez and Margarita Rosario mother of Anthony Rosario and Aunt of Hilton Vega.
Rhinocerous woman who nobody wants and everybody used. They say you’re crazy cause you not crazy enough
to kneel when told to kneel.
Hey, big woman – with scars on the head and scars on the heart that never seem to heal – I saw your light and it was shining.
You gave them love. They gave you shit. You gave them you. they gave you hollywood. They purr at you cause you know how to roar and back it up with realness.
Rhinocerous woman, big momma in a little world. You closed your eyes and neon spun inside your head cause it was dark outside.
You read your bible but god never came. Your daddy woulda loved you but what would the neighbors say.
They hate you momma cause you expose their madness. And their cruelty.
They can see in your eyes a thousand nightmares that they have made come true.
Black woman. Baad woman. Wear your bigness on your chest like a badge cause you done earned it.
Strong woman. Amazon. Wear your scars like jewelry cause they were bought with blood.
They call you mad. And almost had you believing that shit.
They called you ugly. And you hid yourself behind yourself and wallowed in their shame.
Rhinocerous woman – this world is blind and slight of mind and cannot see how beautiful you are.
“Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you don’t know how to use it, if you don’t know where to point it, or what you’re using it for, you can end up shooting yourself in the foot or killing your sisters or brothers.”
– Assata Shakur
Peace Family,
My name is Benu Ma’at and I am a Universal Zulu Nation Department of Community Affairs Program/Project Coordinator as well as a UZN Founder and Program Director of the UZN Phoenix Queens of the Nation: Wisdom Born Zulu Chapter 29. I am also a sociology major attending Lehman College located in the Bronx and President and co-founder of ClassAction Student Group.
On Wednesday, November 26, 2014, ClassAction Student Group, along with the Universal Zulu Nation will host the 2nd Annual Hip-Hop History Month Celebration: Masters of the Elements Hip-Hop Educational Summit & Indigenous Remembrance Community Outreach Initiative FUN-Raiser @ Lehman College. This year, we celebrate 40 years of Hip-Hop Culture and the 41st Anniversary of its first Hip-Hop Awareness Organization – the Universal Zulu Nation.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Statement of Purpose:
Hip Hop Culture is a reverberation of centuries-long resistance to oppression by Black and Brown people in the Americas. Born in the Bronx from meager beginnings; emerging from the ghetto streets plagued by poverty and violence, Hip Hop is now a medium that empowers people across the globe. However, the Rap Music Industry and, to some degree, the world of Hip-Hop Education are no longer held accountable to the people. The 2nd Annual Hip-Hop History Month Celebration: Masters of the Elements Hip-Hop Educational Summit seeks to reconnect the most influential parts of Hip Hop with the streets it was born from, by putting Theory to Practice with the addition of the Indigenous Remembrance Day Community Outreach Initiative FUN-Raiser.
Breakfast Meet & Greet, Opening Remarks, Program Break Down
Benu Ma’at
Universal Zulu Nation Department of Community Affairs Program/Project Coordinator
UZN Phoenix Queens of the Nation: Wisdom Born Zulu Chapter 29
Founding President/Program Coordinator ClassAction Student Group Faculty Dining Room 10am – 11am
Outstanding Community Education & Service Awards Presented to:
Universal Zulu Nation Teaching Artists
Outstanding Student Engagement Awards
Presented to:
Lehman College Alumni Association
Office of Campus Engagement & New Student Programs
Outstanding Community Service Award
Presented to:
Morton Williams Supermarkets
~ Ciphers of the Master Teachers Luncheon
Faculty Dining Rooms
1pm – 2pm
Masters of the Elements Hip-Hop Educational Workshop Series
Faculty and East Dining Rooms
2pm – 3pm
Elements of Culture Art Showcase & Open Mic: The Break Down Chill Session Networking Party
