Ralph McDaniels
Video Music Box Founder, Cultural Historian
Hip-Hop history, cultural preservation, youth media education.
Hip-Hop Culture & Education Council
"If you don't tell your story, somebody else will tell it wrong."
Biography
Founder of Video Music Box — the longest-running hip-hop video show — and a respected cultural historian whose lifelong work has documented and preserved the foundations of hip-hop culture.
Community Impact
Educates youth in media literacy, journalism and the documented history of hip-hop.
Document your story. The culture survives because somebody decided to record it.
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