The Complexity Of Straight Outta Compton

August 19, 2015 – Segment 2movie

Stay tuned for a discussion of Straight Outta Compton, the biographical film released last weekend about the hip hop group N.W.A. in the 1980s and 1990s.

With: Kalima Young, Director of the Baltimore Art + Justice Project, a project of the Office of Community Engagement at the Maryland Institute College of Art; and Lawrence Burney, Founder and Editor of True Laurels, who compiled a feature on race and music in Baltimore for this week’s City Paper.

 

Written by Marc Steiner

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