Upcoming Events:

05.21.2009 / Recognizing enslaved Africans lost during the Middle Passage to the French West Indies, Rhythms of Our Memory celebrates the annual Journée Nationale du Souvenir des Victimes de l’Esclavage Colonial. Also featuring Beat Assailant, Ferrica Fatia, Yann Kesz, Allonymous and the Massak Afroelectric Orkestra. Le Divan du Monde, 75 rue des Martyrs, Paris, 8:00.

Past Events:

12.23.2008 / Appeared as the final 33 1/3 Multimedia Reading Series author of 2008, reading from There’s a Riot Goin’ On with 1960s-70s clips of Sly and the Family Stone from the Showtime doc The Skin I’m In, Woodstock and more. Barbès, 376 9th Street, Brooklyn, 7:00.

04.11.2008 / Spoke on Hiphop As Resistance in French Society at the 2008 EMP Pop Conference, part of a panel including Joshua Clover, Charles Mudede, and Edwin Hill. 4:00, 325 5th Avenue North, Seattle.

03.26.2008 / Appeared at Médias & Nouvelles Générations Urbaines: Exclusion ou Intégration?, a day-long conference concerning the lack of urban representation in the French media, sponsored by TraceTV and the American Embassy. 9:00 AM, France-Amériques, 9 avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Paris.

07.14.2007 / Hosted a reading for Bronx Biannual, featuring contributors Greg Tate, Carol Taylor, Sun Singleton, Reginald Lewis and SékouWrites. Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St., New York, NY, 7:00. Free drinks.

11.01.2006 / Martyrs of Pop event, also featuring authors Kim Cooper (In the Aeroplane Under the Sea), Jean-Emmanuele Deluxe (Lost in the Grooves) and Pierre Mikaïloff (Some Clichés). Galerie En Marge, 92 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Paris, 5:00.

09.22.2006 / Panel discussion on the cinematic legacy of Tupac Shakur at the National Film Theatre of the British Film Institute, with NME editor Anthony Thornton and former 2Pac manager Leila Steinberg, moderated by cultural critic Jacqueline Springer. BFI, 21 Stephen Street, London. 8:00.

05.20.2006 / Discussion about black rock pioneers Sly Stone and Jimi Hendrix with author Greg Tate in Harlem. Hue-Man Bookstore & Café, 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd., New York, NY, 6:00.

05.18.2006 / Book release for There’s a Riot Goin’ On. Morningside Bookstore, 2915 Broadway, New York, NY, 7:00. Free drinks.