Rosa Clemente is a Hip Jop Activist, member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and a journalist with Pacifica Radio, WBAI 99.5FM NYC and Air America Radio.
In our film she discusses pregnancy, politics and the end of the US Bombing in Vieques Puerto Rico.
Rosa Clemente is a grassroots organizer of the most necessary kind. Known for speaking truth to power, she is unafraid and determined to carve a better path for her black and brown brothers and sisters. She speaks with our audiences about the challenges facing Latino and African American peoples and opens up about her own struggles. As an expecting mother surviving a difficult pregnancy, Rosa discusses relationships to self, men and money from an intensely personal and powerful place. When her daughter is born, we re-visit this cultural revolutionary to see who motherhood has thickened the plot.
Rosa Clemente is a Hip-Hop activist, a journalist with WBAI Radio in New York City and a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
Rosa Alicia Clemente is a Black Puerto Rican grassroots organizer, journalist, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Know Thy Self Speakers Bureau which has created two successful college/universities tours, Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win and the Speak Truth to Power tours and most recently has created the Hip Hop Skool for Social Justice. With an earned degree from the University of Albany and a Masters of Professional Studies form Cornell University she is committed to scholar-activism and youth organizing. Her work as an activist has taken her across the United States and internationally to colleges, universities, high schools and prisons. She has delivered lectures on topics such as African-American and Latino/a Intercultural Relations, Hip-Hop Activism, The History of the Young Lords Party, and Organizing to Free U.S. Political Prisoners. Rosa has written for Clamor Magazine, The Black World Today, The Final Call and has been the subject of articles in the Village Voice, The Amsterdam News, the New York Times and Red Eye Magazine. She has appeared on CNN, C-Span, Democracy Now, Street Soldiers, and National Public Radio(NPR). In 2001 she was a youth representative at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in South Africa and in 2002 was named by Red Eye Magazine as one of the top 50 Hip Hop Activists to look out for. Currently she is a co-host/co-producer WBAI’s (99.5 FM/NYC) show Where We Live, was recently published in Third World Press, Role Call: A Generational Anthology, is a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Black August Collective, and is the coordinator of the State of Black World Youth Caucus.
Check Out Her Work:
The Rockefeller Drug Reform Sham
REPORTING FROM NEW ORLEANS
Hip-hop, Money, Youth & Liberation: A Talk with Rosa Clemente
visit her website www.rosaclemente.org
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