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B. Hurt's Interests
General
Music
Partial List of On-Screen Participants, In Order of Appearance
Doug E. Fresh, rapper,
KRS-ONE, rapper/activist
Chris Lighty, CEO of Violator Records/Management
M-1, Rapper
Conrad Tillard, Hip-Hop Minister/Activist, Executive Director of Movement for CHHANGE (Conscious Hip-Hop Activism Necessary for Global Empowerment), NYC
Busta Rhymes, Rapper
Toni Blackman, Rapper
D12, Rap Group
Fat Joe, Rapper
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Cultural Critic
Dr. James Peterson, Hip-Hop Scholar, Penn State University
Kevin Powell, Author, Hip-Hop Historian/Activist
Dr. William Jelani Cobb, Scholar and Author
Mos Def, Rapper
Talib Kweli, Rapper
Chuck Creekmur, Hip-Hop Writer and Co-Founder of allhiphop.com
Jackson Katz, Anti-Sexism Activist and Author
Chuck D, Rapper/Activist
Jadakiss, Rapper
Asha Jennings, Spelman College Graduate/Activist
Lauren Clark, Spelman Student/Activist
Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning Performance Artist/Playwright
Mikael Moore, Morehouse Graduate and Aide to Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Sut Jhally, Scholar, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Beverly Guy Sheftall, Scholar, Spelman College, Atlanta
Russell Simmons, Hip-Hop Executive
50 Cent, Rapper
Tim'm West, Rapper
Emil Wilbekin, former Editor-in-Chief of Vibe Magazine
Mark Anthony Neal, Author and Scholar, Duke University
Corey Smyth, Hip-Hop Manager
Carmen Ashurst-Watson, Scholar and former Def Jam Executive
Stephen Hill, Senior VP of Music Programming, BET
Clipse, Rap Duo
Movies
BYRON HURT (Producer/Director)
Byron Hurt is the New Jersey-based producer of the award-winning documentary and underground classic, I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America and Moving Memories: The Black Senior Video Yearbook. Hurt, 37, is a former Northeastern University football quarterback and long-time gender violence prevention educator. For more than five years, he was the associate director and founding member of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading college-based rape and domestic violence prevention initiative for professional athletics. He is also the former associate director of the first gender violence prevention program in the United States Marine Corps. Hurt was the recipient of the prestigious echoing green public service fellowship in 1999, an award given to ambitious young activists devoted to creating social change in their communities. Over the past decade, Hurt has lectured at more than 100 college campuses and trained thousands of young men and women on issues related to gender, race, sex, violence, music and visual media.
SABRINA SCHMIDT GORDON (Editor/Co-Producer)
Sabrina Schmidt Gordon has been committed to educational, cultural and social advocacy programming for over a decade. Her editing debut garnered an Emmy for WGBH's Greater Boston Arts series. She has worked in both producing and editing capacities on numerous award-winning documentaries for public television and cable and also collaborates with non-profit organizations to create video programs. Most recently, she worked with Witness, an organization founded by Peter Gabriel that trains activists around the world to use video as a tool for social change. Gordon is also the Producer and Director of 180 Days, a documentary about the NYC Teaching Fellows Program, and Roughstars, a profile of the band at the forefront of the “rock and bounce” music scene in New York City.
STANLEY NELSON (Executive Producer)
Stanley Nelson, a 2002 MacArthur “genius” Fellow, is Executive Producer of Firelight Media, a not-for-profit documentary production company dedicated to giving a voice to people and issues that are marginalized in popular culture. His 2003 film, The Murder of Emmett Till, was broadcast nationally on PBS’s American Experience and Nelson went on to win the Primetime Emmy for Best Directing for nonfiction; the Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival; a coveted award from the International Documentary Association; and the highest honor in broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody award, among many others. His 2004 film, A Place of Our Own, a semi-autobiographical look at the African American middle class, debuted at Sundance and aired on Independent Lens. His most recent film is Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple.
Television
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O319vDvkqxA
Books
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley; The Will to Change, bell hooks; Makes Me Wanna Holla, Nathan McCall; I May Not Get There with You: The Real Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Eric Dyson; Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins; Race Matters, Cornel West
Heroes
My immediate world: My mother and father, Taundra, my sister; Greg Hunter, Heru Nefera Amen -
Athletes: Muhammad Ali, Paul Robeson, Venus and Serena Williams -
Civil Rights: Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, MLK, Jr., Angela Davis, Medgar Evers, Assata Shakur, Nat Turner, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisholm, Nelson Mandela ... basically, any man, woman or child who lived, died, or sacrificed to free the minds, bodies, and souls of black people. Film: Marlon Riggs, Michael Moore, Andrew P. Jones, Orlando Bagwell, Stanley Nelson, Yvonne Smith, Shola Lynch - Music: Bob Marley, KRS-One, Dead Prez, Nas, Talib Kweli, Common, The Roots; Modern day activists: Rosa Clemente, Kevin Powell, Jackson Katz, Ras Baraka, Monifa Akinwole-Bandele, April Silver; Scholars: Michael Eric Dyson, bell hooks, Gail Dines, Tricia Rose, Cornel West, Jelani Cobb, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Sut Jhally, James Peterson
About me: What's up y'all!! This is the official myspace page for the award winning-documentary film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. Welcome, welcome, welcome! Shout out to co-producer and editor, Sabrina Gordon. Shout out to my EP Stanley Nelson. Shout out to the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), the Independent Television Service (ITVS), The Ford Foundation, The Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB), PBS, all my friends and family who contributed to the film, thank you to everyone who allowed me to interview them on camera for the film. To my wife, Kenya, you're my heart and soul. I love you to death. To Mom Dukes and to my sister, Frances and Taundra Hurt, I love you! To the Hurt-Waller family and the Hogan family - I come from good stock! To my tight men, Earl Brown, D. Greene, Big Trev, and Kwame Nzibah - I'm taking Fantasy Football in '08, no doubt. To Jackson Katz, thanks for putting me down with MVP in '93. To my tennis partner Orlando Bagwell, thanks for all of the great advice and support. Shout out to Angie Palmer at CPB and Loren Harris at the Ford Foundation! To my in-laws, thanks for blessing me with your beautiful daughter. To all the men doing gender violence prevention work, BIG UPS!!!!! Shout out to Sonya Childress and Monifa Akinwole for setting out the Community Outreach Campaign. Much love to April Silver, my dope public relations consultant. Shout out to everyone at Akila Worksongs, Inc. Thank you to ANYONE and EVERYONE who came out to see this film in places and spaces around the world. Y'all helped me make this film project such a huge success!! And Big THANK YOU to everyone who watched this film, helped spread the word, blogged, and supported the film in any way. Thank you to the press for all of the positive reviews. And finally, and most importantly, shout out to the Most High for helping me grow through all of the trials and tribulations during the process of making this film. Thanks for my deliverance. Much love to you.
Peace, love, and Hip-Hop!!!
Jackie Hurt, Rest In Peace.
12/9/41 - 6/23/07
Thanks for the add Byron. I caught the film on Independent Lens and really enjoyed it. I'm in a graduate film program with an emphasis in documentary. I'm going to send you the link and hope you'll view it.
Hey thanks for the add! I read your page....CONGRATS! It is hard work but sometimes it really pays off! Never give up! I am trying to work on a deal now with PBS. Great job! I wish you all the success! God bless, Jerry D
my brother, there's nothing in the world like being a dad...coaching little league, homework, discipline, just being there in my kid's life, teaching and inspiring them...fatherhood is truly what life is about! peace and keep making your mark on the world.
Whaddup B. Saw your film at a few film festivals and I was watching the dvd again today. Just wondering did you cut it down from the film version or is it just me? If so i there an unabridged version?
Hey Byron, sending you a shout man. Hope all is well. Maybe we can work together at some point. I enjoy your work so much man. Peace and Blessings Onaje
