Election Year Ignites Hip-Hop Activism
Today's hip-hop constituency possesses greater media access and financial clout than when Public Enemy first exhorted the hip-hop generation to 'Fight the Power' in 1989. Hip-Hop music leaders Russell Simmons (L) and Sean Combs (R) listens to former Secretary Andrew Cuomo lobby for the repeal of drug laws in New York on May 28, 2003.

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