Is hip-hop the driving force behind Black business and economic mobility? What can we glean from its innovative strategies and enterprising spirit? And how do the creative economies hip-hop has brokered affect California’s racially diverse and rapidly changing communities?
Tara DeVeaux is a brand marketer influenced by hip-hop culture and Detavio Samuels is a media executive for youth culture storytelling. They discuss hip-hop’s impact on the economy with Robeson Taj Frazier, director of the USC Annenberg Institute for Difference and Empowerment in the Arts, during the opening night of CA FWD’s 2025 California Economic Summit.
This program was co-presented by Zócalo Public Square, ASU, and California Forward (CA FWD) in partnership with Stocktonia.
Part of Zócalo’s series "California 175 — What Connects California?"
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intros
04:23 - Panel: Robeson Taj Frazier, Tara DeVeaux, Detavio Frazier
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Is hip-hop the driving force behind Black business and economic mobility? What can we glean from its innovative strategies and enterprising spirit? And how do the creative economies hip-hop has brokered affect California’s racially diverse and rapidly changing communities?
Tara DeVeaux is a brand marketer influenced by hip-hop culture and Detavio Samuels is a media executive for youth culture storytelling. They discuss hip-hop’s impact on the economy with Robeson Taj Frazier, director of the USC Annenberg Institute for Difference and Empowerment in the Arts, during the opening night of CA FWD’s 2025 California Economic Summit.
This program was co-presented by Zócalo Public Square, ASU, and California Forward (CA FWD) in partnership with Stocktonia.
Part of Zócalo’s series "California 175 — What Connects California?"
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intros
04:23 - Panel: Robeson Taj Frazier, Tara DeVeaux, Detavio Frazier
Visit www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ for more programs and essays in the series.
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/thepublicsquare/
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This program is inspired by "Coatlicue & Las Meninas: The Stanford Edition" (2007/2025) by Mexican American artist Pedro Lasch, commissioned by IAJS and on view at Asheville Art Museum from April 16 to July 13, 2025.
Asheville Art Museum associate curator Jessica Orzulak and artist Pedro Lasch discuss the work’s larger themes, including how mirrors encourage viewers to reflect on the movement of people, ideas, and objects across time and space. Then, a panel featuring Stanford IAJS founding faculty co-director Tomás Jiménez, philosopher and ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah, immersive journalism and extended reality (XR) pioneer Nonny de la Peña, and immigrant integration advocate Federico Rios will discuss the ways Americans, old and new, see ourselves in each other.
This is the first program in “What Can Become of Us?”, a collaboration between the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies (IAJS) and Zócalo Public Square, envisioning new perspectives on migration, America’s diverse communities, and how people come together across differences.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intros
04:06 - Artist Talk: Pedro Lasch, Jessica Orzulak
32:11 - Panel: Tomás Jiménez, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Nonny de la Peña,
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Is hip-hop the driving force behind Black business and economic mobility? What can we glean from its innovative strategies and enterprising spirit? And how do the creative economies hip-hop has brokered affect California’s racially diverse and rapidly changing communities?
Tara DeVeaux is a brand marketer influenced by hip-hop culture and Detavio Samuels is a media executive for youth culture storytelling. They discuss hip-hop’s impact on the economy with Robeson Taj Frazier, director of the USC Annenberg Institute for Difference and Empowerment in the Arts, during the opening night of CA FWD’s 2025 California Economic Summit.
This program was co-presented by Zócalo Public Square, ASU, and California Forward (CA FWD) in partnership with Stocktonia.
Part of Zócalo’s series "California 175 — What Connects California?"
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intros
04:23 - Panel: Robeson Taj Frazier, Tara DeVeaux, Detavio Frazier
Visit www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ for more programs and essays in the series.
Follow Zócalo on X: x.com/thepublicsquare
Instagram: www.instagram.com/thepublicsquare/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/zocalopublicsquare
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/z-calo-public-square/
