School of Divinity Bringing Hip Hop to Cramton, University to Bridge Religious, Generation Gap

Howard University School of Divinity is again bringing high profile speakers, academics and performing artists from across the nation to spread the word during its 95th Annual Convocation next week, but this year something’s different.

The message is being delivered through hip hop.

Names of some of the guests are familiar – like syndicated radio talk show host Michael Eric Dyson, the man EBONY named one of the nation’s most influential African Americans, and the Rev. E. Dewey Smith, the singing pastor from Decatur, Ga., whose YouTube videos routinely get five- and six-figure hits.

But some are new to Howard. They are Christian hip hop artists Mali Music, Sean Simmonds, Da ‘T.R.U.T.H., Rhema Soul

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