MUNCIE, Indiana – National journalist and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill will speak on “The War on Youth” at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 in Pruis Hall at Ball State University in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the university’s Unity Week events.
Lauded as an intellectual for the Hip Hop Generation and named by Ebony magazine as one of the country’s most influential black leaders, Hill is a host for HuffPost Live and BET News, as well as a political contributor for CNN. His reporting covers a range of topics, including culture, politics and education.
Since his days as a youth in Philadelphia, Hill has been a social justice activist and organizer. He is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization devoted to educating youth about their legal rights and responsibilities, and is on the board of the Philadelphia Student Union.
Now a distinguished professor of African-American studies at Morehouse College, Hill has held previous academic posts at Columbia and Temple universities. He is the author of three books: Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity; The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America; and The Barbershop Notebooks: Reflections on Culture, Politics, and Education. Trained as an anthropologist of education, Hill earned a doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
