LIVE! USC's Bovard Auditorium Post Event Reception hosted by USC Spectrum RSVP Req'd—USC Students, Faculty & Staff Wait List Req'd—USC Alumni & Community Groups USC Student Q&A Submissions: Monday, 2/26/07 Lupe Fiasco Sit-Down Tuesday, 2/26/07 Race, Rap & Redemption presented by USC Visions and Voices

This provocative and powerful event explores the ways that rap and hip-hop music, poetry, dance and drama confront issues of racial and social justice…solidarity and separation… guilt and innocence… rejection and redemption. The event features powerful performances by: Rap icon Ice Cube* Three-time 2007 Grammy nominee and hip-hop phenom Lupe Fiasco* Mayda del Valle of Russell Simmons' Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam with special guest beatboxer Joshua RKB Silverstein Saul Williams, world renowned slam poet, musician and author Dancers from the famed Lula Washington Dance Theatre Actor Mailon Rivera (The Shield, CSI: Miami) in a riveting piece on redemption vs. personal responsibility M:Gray Music Academy Orchestra, under direction of USC Jazz Studies Chair, Ron McCurdy *Q&As with Ice Cube and Lupe Fiasco will follow each of their performances. USC Students only, submit a question here Meet our Donors & Sponsors

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