Freedom School Youth Indict Current-day Hip Hop

I had a great time teaching at Freedom School in the Twin Cities this summer. Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) started the schools in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, in 1964. The schools were designed to promote education for transformation and liberation. At this summer's graduation, the students held a mock trial pointing out the brillance of hip hop's early innovators juxtaposed with today's unwholesome lyrics, which were blamed with misleading the masses of youth in inner cities.