Inside Access

WHYY Community Events Film Screening:

Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes

Join WHYY for a free preview screening of the eye-openingnew Independent Lens film "Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes"on Thursday, January 25 in the WHYY Technology Center, 150North Sixth Street in Philadelphia.

Doors open at 6 p.m.;light refreshments will be served. This "loving critique" byfilmmaker Byron Hurt (pictured) examines the representationsof manhood, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop music andculture. A post-film discussion features Harry Allen, hip-hop activist and "media assassin"; Michael Coard, hip-hopinstructor at Temple University/PASCEP; Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, professor of urban education at Temple University; andDonyale Reavis, president of Hip Hop Speaks.

RSVP by noon on January 24 at http://www.whyy.org/ or call (215) 351-0511.Hosted by WHYY and ITVS Community Cinema in partnership with Hip Hop Speaks, The National Hip Hop Political Convention,Media Tank, Scribe Video Center, Black Lily Film & Music Festival and Freshout Media. Watch Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Tuesday, February 20at 11 p.m. on WHYY-TV.

THE HUMANE METROPOLIS

A lecture by Rutherford H. Platt, Founder, Ecological Cities Project;Professor of Geography and Planning Law, University ofMassachusetts

Respondent: Kenneth Foster, Professor of Bioengineering,University of Pennsylvania

January 11, 2007, 6:00pm, Upper Gallery, Meyerson Hal, l210 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA

For more information, call 215 573 8386.

Thanks to PABJ Member Dr. Germaine Edwards