Rosa Clemente Biography

Community organizer, radio journalist and hip-hop activist Rosa Clemente ran for Green Party Vice President in the 2008 U.S. election. Along with Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, the pair became the first women of color ticket in American History. Born and raised in South Bronx, NY, Clemente has been a community organizer and a featured keynote speaker, panelist and political commentator for over 20 years.

In 1995, she developed Know Thy Self Productions, which has since produced four major community activism tours and consults on issues such as hip-hop activism, media justice, voter engagement among youth of color, third party politics, intercultural relations between African Americans and Latinos, immigrants’ rights as an extension of human rights and universal healthcare.

Clemente's academic work has been dedicated to researching national liberation struggles inside the United States, with a specific focus on The Young Lords Party, The Black Panther Party and the Black and Brown Liberation Movements of the 60s and 70s, as well as the effects of COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) on such movements. She has also written extensively on Afro-Latino identity and politics, sexism within hip-hop culture and hip-hop activism, media justice, and African American and Latino unity.

Clemente has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, and has written for Ebony, Clamor Magazine, The Black World Today, The Final Call, The Ave. Magazine and numerous websites. She has also been the subject of articles in the New York Times, The Nation, The Progressive, The Village Voice, Urban Latino, Essence, Latina, Vibe, The Huffington Post, Alternet, Wiretap, All Hip Hop.com, Black Agenda Report, The Indypendent, Newsone.com, In These Times and The Source.

Rosa Clemente is a frequent contributor on CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, Free Speech TV, On the Real with Chuck D, Street Soldiers, Pacifica Radio, Grit TV with Laura Flanders, teleSUR, Hard Knock Radio, The Truth With Jeff Johnson (BET), The Bev Smith Show, The Warren Ballentine Show, Make it Plain with Mark Thompson, WPFW with Dr. Jared Ball, and Democracy Now!.

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