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MUSIC: Rapper Nissim Black, Wednesday, March 1 @ 7:30 pm (Linda Russell)

Rapper Nissim Black

Wednesday, March 1 at 7:30 pm

Kresge Auditorium & Gallery

Nissim Black, a self-identified African American Hasidic Jew, is an artist who views himself as a bridge between both Jews and Blacks and uses his musical voice to fighta ntisemitism and racism. An advocate of “Clean & Holy” lyrics coupled with an old-school vibe, he sees his music as adding to the marketplace of available type of speech within rap and blends his African American Heritage with his Orthodox JewishFaith. Sponsored by Bowdoin's departments of Music, Religion, Dance, German,Bowdoin Hillel and Africana Studies