Adam Bradley: Diversity and the Hip Hop Generation

Adam Bradley, editor of The Anthology of Rap, discusses three challenges encountered in corporate diversity programs:

How do we talk about difficult issues of difference in the workplace in the face of political correctness?

How do we expand the terms of diversity to include diversity of thought and religious denominations, without losing sight of the original reasons that diversity programs exist?

How do we do this in a global society that is at once more integrated and more divided than ever?

These are questions that Bradley thinks about in his work, through the lens of hip-hop as a global lingua franca.

Adam Bradley is a scholar of African American literature and a writer on black popular culture. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post as well as on PBS, NPR, and C-SPAN. He is the author or editor of several books, including Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop and The Anthology of Rap. Most recently, he collaborated with the rapper and actor Common on Common's memoir, One Day It'll All Make Sense.