Dr. Marc Lamont Hill To Share #Ferguson Perspective At Historic Philadelphia Church

PHILADELPHIA - Nov. 28, 2014 - PRLog -- Less than one week after the Grand Jury decision in Ferguson, MO, national journalist and political commentator Dr. Marc Lamont Hill will be at Mother Bethel AME Church, located at South 6th and Lombard Streets in Philadelphia, this Sunday (11/30) for a public dialogue immediately following the 9:30am worship service. Dr. Hill just returned from Ferguson and will discuss his reaction and experiences in an informal conversation in the church's lower level. This "Basement Chat" is free and open to the public with free overflow parking.  The conversation will be led by Mother Bethel's Pastor Rev. Dr. Mark Kelly Tyler, who was in Ferguson the week after Mike Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson. Dr. Tyler has also been active in “Justice For Mike Brown” protests here in Philadelphia. “We invited Dr. Hill to speak because he’s been on the frontline in Ferguson since day one,” says Dr. Tyler. “When I went to Ferguson back in August, I ran into an exhausted Dr. Hill the morning my flight landed. He told me of things happening that seemed too hard to believe, until I had a chance to witness it for myself. Dr. Hill has an important message for us about what he’s seen and where we should go next.”

For more information about Sunday's Basement Chat with Dr. Marc Lamont Hill at Mother Bethel AME Church go to http://www.motherbethel.org. All media inquiries should be directed to Leslie Patterson-Tyler of Tyler-Made Productions by calling (609) 247-2632 or via email at Leslie@TylerMadePR.com

About Dr. Marc Lamont Hill (source www.marclamonthill.com)

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. He is the host of HuffPost Live and BET News, as well as a political contributor for CNN. He is the former host of the nationally syndicated television show Our World With Black Enterprise and political contributor to Fox News Channel. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Hill is Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia University and Temple University.
Since his days as a youth in Philadelphia, Dr. Hill has been a social justice activist and organizer. He is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization devoted to educating youth about their legal rights and responsibilities. He is also a board member and organizer of the Philadelphia Student Union. Dr. Hill also works closely with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, focusing on drug informant policy. Over the past few years, he has actively worked on campaigns to end the death penalty and to release numerous political prisoners.
In 2011, Ebony Magazine named him one of America’s 100 most influential Black leaders.
Dr. Hill is the author of three books: the award-winning Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity; The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black life in America; and The Barbershop Notebooks: Reflections on Culture, Politics, and Education . He has also published three edited books: Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility; Schooling Hip-Hop: New Directions in Hip-Hop Based Education; and The Anthropology of Education Reader. He is currently completing two manuscripts: 10 Right Wing Myths About Education; and Written By Himself: Race, Masculinity, and the Politics of Literacy.
Trained as an anthropologist of education, Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, and education.