Chuck D, leader and co-founder of the legendary group Public Enemy and acclaimed Revolutionary, hip hop icon, social activist, author, film producer, and digital music pioneer, will discuss his life, work, and recent graphic novel STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D with Akashic Books publisher Johnny Temple in the VersoFest 2024 Kickoff Conversation presented by Darcy Travlos.
Local media host, entrepreneur, and music executive June Archer will introduce Chuck D for the opening night of VersoFest 2024.
Chuck D first rose to acclaim in the 1980s with a string of critically lauded and commercially successful albums that addressed weighty issues about race, rage, and inequality. Present day, The New York Times has named Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back to their list of the “25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century,” and in 2005, The Library of Congress added Fear of a Black Planet to their National Recording Registry.