Moving to the Beat: Hip Hop from PDX to Sierra Leone

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Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:00am

Bridging the gap between the US and Africa with Hip Hop youth culture -- that's one of the aims of the new film Moving 2 the Beat, produced here in Portland and in Sierra Leone.  Abdul Fofanah, co-director of the film and a Sierra Leonean -American, talks about the film here with Tom Becker.   

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