In Moving to the Beat an African American hip hop group, Rebel Soulz from Portland, Oregon journeys to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to discover a spiritual homeland and resurrect Chuck D’s notion of hip hop as the "black CNN." The language of hip hop allows for a dialogue between Black Americans and Africans to explore issues of race, gender, war and more, and to confront each side’s stereotype of the other. The result is a deeply forged connection that transcends centuries of misunderstanding and separation.

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