MNN's COMMUNITY MEDIA CORNER - What's New

Welcome to the MNN Community Media & Outreach Department's e-newsletter, Community Media Corner. You can check out the archives at http://www.mnn.org/com [1].

ABOUT H2O
H2O [Hip-Hop Odyssey] is the media initiative of the Hip-Hop Association. Our media activities includes the H2O [Hip-Hop Odyssey] International Film Festival, the Freshest Youth Program, the Odyssey Awards, Defuse News, and H2ONewsreel.  Our mission is to support the use of Hip-Hop culture and media as a tool for social awareness and youth empowerment. Through the development of online technology, distribution outlets, and media preservation, the Hip-Hop Association is able to provide accessible alternative media and educational tools for teaching, organizing, and civic engagement. Our annual H2O [Hip-Hop Odyssey] International Film Festival (H2OIFF) helps increase awareness of independent filmmakers, and provides a wide lens into the culture of Hip-Hop. H2OIFF works with aspiring and established filmmakers, encouraging them to develop and create new work that showcases positive images of Hip-Hop culture.

ABOUT Hip Hop Association
Founded in 2002, the Hip-Hop Association (H2A) was formed to facilitate, foster, and preserve Hip-Hop culture. Our mission is to utilize Hip-Hop culture as a tool to facilitate critical thinking and foster social change and unity, while preserving Hip-Hop culture for scholarship and future generations. We accomplish this by cultivating and empowering the community through the use of media, technology, popular education, social entrepreneurship, and leadership development. www.hiphopassociation.org [5]