The Words On Flicks Show: Celebrating Hip-Hop At 50 in Film!

The Words On Flicks Show with Janine Coveney

We’re baaa-aaack! This month, host Janine Coveney welcomes notable cultural scribes Kenji Jasper and Michael A. Gonzales to discuss hip-hop's influence on the movies. Based in Washington, D.C., Kenji Jasper is an award-winning journalist who has covered the hip hop scene of the 1990s and early 2000s for VIBE, XXL and National Public Radio.  He is the author of the novels Dark, Nostrand Avenue and The Battle of Mogadishu, a collection of short stories dropping this fall. Harlem native Michael A. Gonzales is a cultural critic and essayist who has written for The Paris Review, The Village Voice, Wax Poetics, The Wire UK, Maggot Brain and Pitchfork; check out his CrimeReads.com pieces on the movies Paid In Full and American Gangster. Upcoming stories will appear in “The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories” edited by Maxim Jakubowski, Get Up Offa That Thing: Crime Fiction Inspired by James Brown” edited by Gary Phillips Killens.