Stranger things have happened -- especially since the event being covered by the public-service cable channel is a University of Chicago town hall meeting called "Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?" (Saturday at 7 p.m. on C-SPAN). The moderator is Bakari Kitwana, author of “Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America.”
Among the panelists for this “Book TV” program: Tracy Sharpley Whiting, author of “Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women”; Mark Anthony Neal, author of “New Black Man”; Joan Morgan, author of “When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down”; David Ikard, author of “Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism”; T.J. Crawford, chairman of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, and Amina Norman-Hawkins, executive director of the Chicago Hip-Hop Initiative.