"I was commissioned by the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association (www.frederickdouglassmha.org) to lecture on the topic: Frederick Douglass in the Eras of Hip-Hop. The Association was enacted by the United States Congress in the year 1900 to preserve the memory and legacy of Frederick Douglass, and my lecture took place in Washington, DC on the grounds where the honorable and noble statesman lived from 1874 until he died in 1895.

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Prior to the lecture, I visited the Frederick Douglass House so that I could reap his spiritual and rhetorical energy, putting me in position to best articulate his 19th century point of view to a 21st century audience. The Xennials, Millennials, and Generations Z and Alpha would likely be more familiar with Hip-Hop culture than with the rhetorical genius, abolitionist, civic educator, and former enslaved. I imagined, however, that the Silent and Baby Boomer audience would be able to finish my sentences pertaining to the legend, and just might recognize familiar nuances in my Black oratorical style of social movement messaging. In any event, I was prepared to connect the diverse audiences."