Let me pull up my cheat sheet here here. I should know this by now. I do this frequently. So hes currently an assistant professor of folklore and africanamerican studies at the university of wisconsin, madison. Before that, he was in seattle, where he was the director of the Washington Cultural traditions center, Washington Cultural. Its a mess. It is. And before he actually was here in tennessee, where he worked at both the Tennessee Arts Commission and tennessee, so formally in a past life, he was one of these people running the tense, doing other hospitality. But now hes on the other side as a published author himself. And so with that, ill turn it to langston, and hes going to give us an introduction. Hip hop in houston, thank thank you. Yeah, im delighted to be here. Like jennifer just said, maybe five years ago. Yeah, i was running around working on and collaborating with the rest of the staff to produce this here event. Its really weird to be back here as an author, but again, i
Let me pull up my cheat sheet here here. I should know this by now. I do this frequently. So hes currently an assistant professor of folklore and africanamerican studies at the university of wisconsin, madison. Before that, he was in seattle, where he was the director of the Washington Cultural traditions center, Washington Cultural. Its a mess. It is. And before he actually was here in tennessee, where he worked at both the Tennessee Arts Commission and tennessee, so formally in a past life, he was one of these people running the tense, doing other hospitality. But now hes on the other side as a published author himself. And so with that, ill turn it to langston, and hes going to give us an introduction. Hip hop in houston, thank thank you. Yeah, im delighted to be here. Like jennifer just said, maybe five years ago. Yeah, i was running around working on and collaborating with the rest of the staff to produce this here event. Its really weird to be back here as an author, but again, i
Let me pull up my cheat sheet here here. I should know this by now. I do this frequently. So hes currently an assistant professor of folklore and africanamerican studies at the university of wisconsin, madison. Before that, he was in seattle, where he was the director of the Washington Cultural traditions center, Washington Cultural. Its a mess. It is. And before he actually was here in tennessee, where he worked at both the Tennessee Arts Commission and tennessee, so formally in a past life, he was one of these people running the tense, doing other hospitality. But now hes on the other side as a published author himself. And so with that, ill turn it to langston, and hes going to give us an introduction. Hip hop in houston, thank thank you. Yeah, im delighted to be here. Like jennifer just said, maybe five years ago. Yeah, i was running around working on and collaborating with the rest of the staff to produce this here event. Its really weird to be back here as an author, but again, i
Let me pull up my cheat sheet here here. I should know this by now. I do this frequently. So hes currently an assistant professor of folklore and africanamerican studies at the university of wisconsin, madison. Before that, he was in seattle, where he was the director of the Washington Cultural traditions center, Washington Cultural. Its a mess. It is. And before he actually was here in tennessee, where he worked at both the Tennessee Arts Commission and tennessee, so formally in a past life, he was one of these people running the tense, doing other hospitality. But now hes on the other side as a published author himself. And so with that, ill turn it to langston, and hes going to give us an introduction. Hip hop in houston, thank thank you. Yeah, im delighted to be here. Like jennifer just said, maybe five years ago. Yeah, i was running around working on and collaborating with the rest of the staff to produce this here event. Its really weird to be back here as an author, but again, i
Parnassus tent is right in front of you. You buy your copies of this book, and our three authors will be signing at the very next tent behind it. So thank you all for your time coming today. And lets thank these three authors. Langston, colin wilkins. Let me pull up my cheat sheet here here. I should know this by now. I do this frequently. So hes currently an assistant professor of folklore and africanamerican studies at the university of wisconsin, madison. Before that, he was in seattle, where he was the director of the Washington Cultural traditions center, Washington Cultural. Its a mess. It is. And before he actually was here in tennessee, where he worked at both the Tennessee Arts Commission and tennessee, so formally in a past life, he was one of these people running the tense, doing other hospitality. But now hes on the other side as a published author himself. And so with that, ill turn it to langston, and hes going to give us an introduction. Hip hop in houston, thank thank y