Volunteer at the 2010 Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest

Interested in volunteering in the 3rd Annual Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest? Email us at CapitalHipHopSoulFest@gmail.com. Volunteers are needed in all areas of the festival. Email us your interest and we'll connect with you from there.

$50 Vending Special for the 2010 Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest-- MEMBERS ONLY

For this week only, Liberated Muse members will enjoy a $50 vending fee to vend in the 2010 Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest. Interested? Email us at CapitalHipHopSoulFest@gmail.com to receive a link to pay this discounted rate and recive your vending application. You must send us your user name on www.LiberatedMuse.com to redeem this special.

To enjoy this discounted rate, visit the http://www.liberated/muse.com network and join today!
Check out the vid above from MTV blogger EricaAmerica who came out to our 2008 Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest-- the first year of the fest.

Perform in the 2010 Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest

The Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest is an all-day outdoors music festival held in Marvin Gaye Park in northeast Washington, DC. The festival features soul music and hip-hop music acts from the Washington DC and surrounding areas. Past acts have included Christylez, Substantial, Afi Soul, Teisha Marie, Godsilla, Rogiers, Marcel and the Truth, and other emerging artists.

If you would like to be considered as a performer in the 2010 Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest, be sure to send in your electronic press kit to CapitalHipHopSoulFest@gmail.com. You can visit the Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest online at http://www.capitalhiphopsoulfest.com/ and on Facebook by clicking HERE.

The 2010 Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest will be held on Saturday, July 24, 2010 from 11am-6pm.

Taking Care of Our Health-Thursday, March 25 @ Busboys & Poets

This Thursday, Liberated Muse members Head-Roc, Mikuak Rai and Princess of Controversy will be the featured acts at the One Common Unity concert at Busboys & Poets at 8pm. The theme is "Taking Care of Our Health" and follows today's historic passage of Obama's Health Care Reform Act.

Come out and enjoy this concert and participate in the dialogue regarding health care in our country.

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Paul Robeson

The period known as "McCarthyism" in this country rarely brings to mind names of prominent Black performers, athletes, academics and politicians. The documentary Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist gives us another angle of history and takes a look at the confluence of McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to African-American actor Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep African-Americans in roles that were inhumane, stereotypical and demeaning.

For today's performers, this documentary is a must-see. It gives context to the current images we see on television and provides an example as to how a movement was begun and quickly thwarted when Black artists unified and spoke out against the hypocrisy of justice for all. What is particularly disarming is the political fire that many of the prominent artists we know of and adore had burning within. For instance, Paul Robeson was not only an amazing actor and singer, but was also a charismatic political figure that spoke out for the rights of Black US citizens.

A must-see for today's artists interested in using their art to make change.

Hazel Scott

Canada Lee

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