Kitwana, Bakari

BAKARI KITWANA was the Executive Editor of The Source, the country's best-selling music magazine, for much of the nineties; Editorial Director at 3rd World Press, a black nationalist publishing house; a music reviewer for NPR's "All Things Considered." He currently freelances for the Village Voice, Savoy, The Source, and the Progressive and his weekly column, "Do the Knowledge," is published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He is the author of The Rap on Gangsta Rap and Basic's The Hip Hop Generation. He lives in Westlake, Ohio.