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Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats &Rhymes Premiering Tonight on Independent Lens on PBS
January 26, 2010"... a broad and eye-opening portrait of hip-hop masculinity." - The Washington Post Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes takes an in-depth look at machismo in rap music and hip-hop culture -- where creative genius, poetic beauty, and mad beats collide with misogyny, violence, and homophobia. Get broadcast listings and discover other films featured now…
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Robert Clift Looks at Racial Identity in Hip-Hop Music
January 21, 2010Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity, airing in February on public television, explores the tension between white racial identity and black cultural propriety at a time when hip-hop is redefining American life. Filmmaker Robert Clift recounts some of the questions he received about the film and what it was like working with white rappers --…
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Season Premiere of P.O.V. Tonight on PBS
June 23, 2009Even though the Independent Lens season has come to an end, you can still catch some of the best Indie films on our sister series P.O.V., which kicks off its season with NEW MUSLIM COOL tonight at 10:00 PM on PBS (check local listings). Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez pulled himself out of drug dealing and street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim.…