Dr. Hill is one of the leading hip-hop generation intellectuals in the country, an award-winning writer, and an Associate Professor at Columbia University. Admission is free for UNL students, faculty, staff and the public.
Dr. Hill stands as an exceptional leader in many different spheres, including academics, education, politics and social activism. A leader in educational innovation, he started a literacy project in 2001 that uses hip-hop culture to increase school engagement and reading skills among high school students. He is a founding board member of My5th, a nonprofit organization devoted to educating youth about their legal rights and responsibilities. Dr. Hill also works closely with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, focusing on drug informant policy. In 2005, Ebony magazine named him one of America’s “top 30 black leaders under 30 years old.”
Dr. Hill has lectured widely and provides regular commentary for media outlets like NPR, Washington Post, Essence magazine, The New York Times, and several TV news channels. He is the host of the nationally syndicated television show Our World with Black Enterprise. His newest book is entitled The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America.
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