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Rapper Killer Mike will talk to MIT students about race relations

Rapper Killer Mike will give a lecture to MIT students on race relations.

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11 years ago

April 23, 2015

Rapper Killer Mike has always been outspoken when it comes to race relations. The rapper will be speaking to MIT students this Friday, April 24th, as apart of MIT’s Hip-Hop Speaker Series, which opened with Young Guru.

Rapper Killer Mike To Speak at MIT In Race Relations

The series is the result of a collaboration between the Arts at MIT and TapTape, an MIT-based music startup. The series’ stated goal is to bring “together leaders in hip-hop with leading faculty and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”

He’ll be talking about how current and advancing technology are shaping race relations and has entitled his lecture “Race Relations in the U.S.”

Killer Mike on Hotspot Atlanta Radio (Photo: Hotspot Atlanta Youtube Screenshot C.C. 2.0)

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