Dr. Lance Williams, Educator and Author
10:45AM - Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Dr. Lance Williams has developed a workshop titled "Lessons Learned from Hip-Hop: Using the Voice of Youth as a Transformative Tool to Create A Positive, Pro-Social Behavior" that uses hip-hop music and videos to focus on the mass media's influence on adolescent behavior. In the workshop, Dr. Williams provides a historical context of the evolution of hip-hop from a once socially conscious art form to its current state of negative images. The workshop documents the overwhelming impact the current media has on the identity of black youth. A goal of the workshop is to provide information that can be used to help black youth review and critique the impact of hip-hop on self-identity and self-esteem, decision-making about school and the value of education, criminality and risky behavior.
