The
National Voter Coalition announced that it will premiere its taping of The Hip-Hop
Summit Action Network Town Hall Meeting on Community Empowerment to east coast
homes on August 21 at 10:00 pm on CN8, a Comcast network station.The
town hall meeting was shot live in Philadelphia on July 12th at the University
of Pennsylvania and was hosted by Russell Simmons and television anchor Art Fennell.“We
are honored to have CN8, The Comcast Network, broadcast the town hall meeting
to its almost 9 million viewers,” said Simmons, the chairman of the Hip-Hop
Summit Action Network. “We are convinced this will reinforce our goal of
encouraging young people to get involved in the process, register and vote.”Art
Fennell, a news anchor for CN8 who moderated the panel with Dr. Benjamin Chavis,
President/CEO of HSAN, will host the hour-long broadcast.The
special showcases the town hall meeting’s important messages of empowerment
and involvement.Hip-Hop
stars like Foxy Brown, Musiq, Jim Jones, Papoose, Jaguar Wright, Queen Pen, and
R&B great Kenny Gamble were all present at the town hall meeting and will
be featured in the taping.All
of the celebrities and politicians convened to empower young people to take action
in getting involved in the political process and to evoke community change in
their neighborhoods by registering to vote.The
town hall’s initiative was part of registering 10,000 new voters in Philadelphia.Founded
in 1999, the National Voter Coalition was created as a response to low voter turnout
amongst primarily poor, underserved residents of African-American and Latino communities.CN8
is the nation’s leading regional cable network with a reach that spans almost
9 million homes from Maine to Virginia. The network will also stream the show
on its Web site, www.cn8.com, during the premiere airing of the show.