WHO IS BLACK? NEW POLITICS FOR A NEW MAJORITY

Rosa Alicia Clemente is a community organizer, radio journalist (WBAI 99.5 FM, NYC-PACIFICA RADIO),Hip-Hop activist and a 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate with the GREEN PARTY.  Born and raised in the South Bronx and Elmsford, NY she is a graduate of the University of Albany and received her Masters of Professional Africana Studies and Education at Cornell University.

It’s Bigger than Black and White ft Rosa Clemente
:: 2008 VP Candidate, Green Party
:: Motivational Speaker
:: Hip Hop Activist
:: Radio and Print Journalist

On July 13th 2008, in Chicago, IL,  Rosa Alicia Clemente and former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, were nominated by the Green Party of the United States, as Vice-Presidential and Presidential candidates respectively. They made up the first women of color ticket in American history and Rosa  Clemente was the first Latina in the history of the U.S.A. to be on the vice-presidential ballot in over thirty states.

Rosa Alicia Clemente is a community organizer, radio journalist (WBAI 99.5 FM, NYC-PACIFICA RADIO),Hip-Hop activist and a 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate with the GREEN PARTY.  Born and raised in the South Bronx and Elmsford, NY she is a graduate of the University of Albany and received her Masters of Professional Africana Studies and Education at Cornell University.

Rosa has been a community organizer and activist for over 15 years.  She has been a featured keynote speaker, panelist, and political commentator all over the United States. In 1995, she developed Know Thy Self Productions, a speaker’s bureau for young people of color.  She began presenting workshops and lectures and to date has presented at over 400 colleges, town halls, rallies and national and international conferences.  Know Thy Self Productions now includes an expanded college speakers bureau which has produced four major community activism tours and consults on issues such as Hip Hop activism, media justice, voter engagement among youth of color, third party politics, intercultural relations between African American and Latino’s,  immigrant rights as an extension of human rights and universal health care.

Rosa’s academic work has been dedicated to researching national liberation struggles inside the United States, with a specific focus on The Young Lords Party, The Black Panther Party and the Black and Brown Liberation Movement’s of the 60′s and 70′s as well as the effects of COINTELPRO  on such movements. She has also written extensively on Afro-Latino identity and politics, Sexism within Hip-Hop Culture and Hip-Hop Activism, Media Justice, and African-American and Latino unity.

While a student at the University of Albany(SUNY), she was president of the Albany State University Black Alliance (ASUBA) and was appointed Director of Multicultural Affairs for the Student Association in her senior year.  At Cornell she was a founding member of La Voz Boriken, a social political organization dedicated to supporting Puerto Rican political prisoners and the independence political movements of Puerto Rico.  She graduated magna cum lada and wrote her masters thesis on the Political Development of the Young Lords Party from 1969-1974. In 1998 she joined the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement(MXGM) and began organizing around issues of police brutality, the Prison Industrial Complex and the freedom of US political prisoners and prisoners of war.

In 2001, Rosa was a youth representative at the first ever United Nations World Conference against Xenophobia, Racism and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa where she sat on the reparations committee and coordinated the Black August South African Hip Hop Tour staring, dead prez,  Jeru DA Damaja, Black Thought of the Roots, Boots for the Coup and Talib Kweli. After returning from South Africa she began co-hosting and producing the show Where We Live on Pacifica Station WBAI, 99.5FM in New York CIty. In 2002 she was named by Red Eye Magazine as one of the top 50 Hip-Hop activists to look out for. In 2003 she cofounded and coordinated the first ever National Hip Hop Political Convention(NHHPC) that drew over 3000 activists who came together to create and implement a national political agenda for the Hip-Hop generation. On May 1st, 2003 Rosa traveled to Vieques, Puerto Rico to document the US Naval withdraw from the island after 67 years of US military control. In 2005 she co-founded the R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop Coalition, a Hip-Hop generation based media justice organization; and in September 2005 10 days after Hurricane Katrina and Rita ravaged parts of the New Orleans and Mississippi, Rosa traveled to the devastated areas as an independent journalist and her on the ground reports were distributed to radio stations all over the world.

Rosa has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships and is a frequent contributor on the following media outlets: On the Real with Chuck D on Air America, Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, The Bev Smith Show, Hard Knock Radio with Davey D, Make It Plain on SIRRUS and CNN with Roland Martin and numerous other radio shows.

Rosa has recently relocated back to the South Bronx, where she resides with her husband and daughter.  She is currently writing her first book: When a Puerto Rican Woman Ran for Vice-President and Nobody Knew Her Name and will soon begin pursuing her Doctorate in politcal science.

TOPICS:
Ain’t I Hip-Hop Too?:
Challenging Patriarchy, Sexism and Homophobia in Hip-Hop Culture

Brown, Black and Green:
New Majority, New Politics for a New Generation

From the Young Lords to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor:
The History of Puerto Rico, Nuyoricans and Colonialism

PRESENTE! Latino’s y Latinas’s in the 21st Century: Going Beyond Imposed Identities , Politics, and Borders

It’s Bigger than Hip-Hop:
Sustainable Politics and Culture  for a radical Hip-Hop generation

Ladies of Color First:
Feminism, Women of Color and a New Way Forward

Speaking and Building Truth to Power:
Media independence for people of color

The Green Jobs Movement:
Can it really save our generation and the planet?

Who is Black?: A Puerto Rican Woman Claims her place in the African Diaspora

GREAT FOR:
KeyNotes
Panels
Student Leadership Conferences/Retreats
Non-Profit Organizations
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hip Hop appreciation week/month
Black History Month
Women’s History Month
Puerto Rican Heritage Month

PRESS:
Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, The Truth With Jeff Johnson(BET),  On the Real with Chuck D(Air America), The Bev Smith Show, Hard Knock Radio, Breakdown FM with Davey D, Pacifica Radio, The Warren Ballentine Show, Make it Plain with Mark Thompson, Jazz and Justice with Dr. Jared Ball, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, TELESUR, AL JAZZERA,GRIT TV with LAURA FLANDERS, FREE SPEECH TV,

Ave. Magazine, Clamor Magazine, UTNE, In These Times, The Progressive, The Nation, New York Times, Urban Latino, Essence, Latina, The Source, Vibe, New York Times, The Village Voice, The Final Call, The Indypendent

Huffington Post, Alternet, SOHH, Wiretap, All Hip Hop.com, Daveyd.com, Black Agenda Report, Newsone.com

PREVIOUS TOURS:
The Hip Hop for President Tour, with Rebel Diaz(2006-2008)

The Speak Truth to Power Tour,
a collaborative tour of award winning activists including dead prez, Lumumba Bandele, Jennifer “J Love” Calderon and Kahlil Almustafa, (2004-2006)

The ACLU College Freedom Tour ,with dead prez, DJ Kuttin Kandi, Mystic and comedian Dave Chapelle(2003-2004)

Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win,with M1 of dead prez and Fred Hampton Jr.(2001-2003)

Videos and radio interviews, print articles and all things
Rosa please visit her blog @

http://clementerosa.blogspot.com

Bookings, Interviews and press kits please contact us @ rosaclemente2010@gmail.com

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Rosa A. Clemente | Main Street | Bronx | NY | 10001