The Black Student Union invites you to come celebrate the kickoff of Black History Month with guest speaker Jay Smooth. Jay is founder and host of New York City's longest running hip-hop radio program, WBAI's "The Underground Railroad," which he launched in 1991 when he was only a teenager. He is also the mastermind behind the hip-hop and politically oriented video blog "The Ill Doctrine," (illdoctrine.com), where he serves up contemporary observation on topics of race, politics, music, and pop culture. As the son of an African American father and a white mother, Smooth credits his mixed race heritage for his "unique position to travel between different worlds." On campus he'll break the taboo, talk about these different worlds, and promote healthy discussion on race in America today. Smooth will entertain, challenge, and enlighten participants with his funny, incisive perspective on music, politics, and culture, encouraging audiences to do their own critical thinking about the world, engage in conversations about cultural issues that matter, and find some common ground.

Sponsors: Africana Studies, Office of University Writing and ePortfolio program