Mehreen Khan
Life Reporter

Hip hop expert, music programmer and author Dalton Higgins will speak  to students on North Campus next Thursday.

Dalton Higgins (right) with actior and author Trey Anthony at the Toronto Reference Library. By Mehreen Khan

“Youth are the future,” is the core message of the presentation, said Higgins.
He said his experiences have taught him that hip hop unites people from different walks of life.
“At a typical hip hop concert, there’s folks from all seven continents,” said Higgins. “That’s what the message is: that hip hop is a uniting force, not a dividing force.”
“I have very strong positions on a lot of social-political items, youth affairs, and environmental, racial, cultural, and gender issues,” which he expresses in his presentations and his book Hip Hop World, said Higgins.
The lecture, It’s a Hip Hop World: Globalization and Youth Culture, takes place at 1 p.m. in the Seventh Semester.
The Robert Gordon lecture series committee organized the event for Black History Month, but wasn’t able to schedule it in February.
“We thought that just because it’s not Black History Month, there’s no reason to not have Dalton Higgins,” said committee chair Jason Galea.
Galea said the lecture is important because it increases, “awareness of the impact, influence of hip-hop culture on society, on youth.”
Music program director Denny Christianson said he encourages students to follow the music genre that interests them most.
“We provide the solid foundation to give them the opportunity to get into whatever they choose.”