This Week in Mastamind Productions & Hip-Hop Film Fest News.

San Francisco - Wed April 20th - SF State - Hip-Hop, Globalization, and the Politics of Identity

Ukiah CA - Thurs April 21st - Mendocino Environmental Center Benefit

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Oakland CA - April 30th - Epps recipient at Malcolm X Conference, Concert & Awards 

Kevin Epps has been invited to be a special guest lecturer at SF State's CÉSAR E. CHÁVEZ PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE for the Hip Hop, Globalization, and the Politics of Identity course. Professors Shawn Ginwright and A.A. Akom in collaboration with KPFA’s Hardknock Radio will be presenting Epps & screening his film Straight Outta Hunters Point  Wednesday April 20th @ SF State 4-7pm in Science rm 101.

San Francisco State was the first university in the country to militantly struggle for ethnic and working class emancipation through the development of culturally relevant curriculum.  This collaboration continues this revolutionary agenda by bringing together communities of scholars and hip hop activists who would otherwise remain in isolation by virtue of geography and social context, with students, teachers, and writers, interested in the social forces that have shaped the hip hop generation in America and beyond.

Thursday April 21st Straight Outta Hunters Point will screen as a fundraiser for Ukiah's 105.1 FM KMEC Radio. As part of their Mendocino Environmental Center Earthweek festival. For Info on this event call  707 468 9801

Oakland CA  Friday - April 29 - Sun, May 1st, 2005

Malcolm X Conference @ Laney College

On April 29th, the 3rd Annual Malcolm X Consciousness Conference will take place at Laney College in Oakland, CA. The 3 day event will bring together student organizers and local activists who will decide and vote on issues most important to the African and Black Student Organizations across the state of California. Topics such as police brutality, education and the state of hip-hop are among the issues being talked about during the 3-day event.

http://unlockyourroots.com/xconf/MXmain.htm

Keynote addresses at the conference will include Chuck D, Yo Yo, Jeff Johnson (also known as “Cousin Jeff” from Rap City on BET), Fred Hampton Jr., Munyiga Lumumba, and Gail Ortega. Hip-hop, Soul, and Spoken word Performances by artists such as The Coup, Ise Lyfe, The Attic, HAIRDOO, Amir Sulaimon, and Ga brilla. On Saturday the 29th a ceremony will take place in which Straight Outta Hunters Point director Kevin Epps will receive a "Children of Malcolm Award".

Other activities and highlights include:

o A lively Debate: To vote or not to vote

o True Conscious Hip Hop/Spoken word concert

o Pan African Fashion Show and dinner

o The Malcolm X Oratorical Competition

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