The Get Down

September 7, 2016 – Segment 1

Our guest host is Baltimore City resident, farmer, educator, and food justice advocate Denzel Mitchell. We begin the show with a discussion of The Get Down, a Netflix original series set in the 1970s that focuses on hip hop in the Bronx. With: D Watkins, columnist for Salon.com, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Baltimore, Founder of the BMORE Writers Project, and author of The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir; and Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields, co-Founder and Senior Director of Education and Innovation for the Cambio Group.

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