Hip Hop Congress

Social Justice Clothing Line Seeks Alliance with Multicultural Centers [BIOHH]

CONTACT:
Marcus Manning
www.biohh.com
612.250.5747
marcus.manning@biohh.com

Social Justice Clothing Line Seeks Alliance with Multicultural Centers

Minneapolis, MN, 1/27/08 – Blame it on Hip Hop (BIOHH), a local urban clothing line, has a powerful social message coupled with the fresh style of their hats and t-shirts. BIOHH’s mission is to promote the positive aspects of Hip Hop culture, often overlooked or denounced by the mainstream media, through community outreach projects, public speaking engagements, and promoting socially minded hip hop artists. BIOHH is looking to partner with Multicultural Centers and Student Groups on college campuses, to revitalize the dialogue about hip hop and promote critical multicultural education.

The CEO and Co-Founder, Marcus Manning is a passionate person who believes in the power and dedication of youth to inspire change and carry out the BIOHH’s mission. BIOHH is a company that acknowledges issues and challenges embedded in Hip Hop, but is fighting the notion that Hip Hop is the culprit of all evil or a scapegoat for society’s woes. “To blame Hip Hop for the world’s troubles is like blaming the band-aid for the cut” says Marcus Manning. BIOHH’s shirts represent the positive core within the Hip Hop culture. Our mission is to promote the positive aspects of what Hip Hop has done and will continue to do in this society. We are a clothing company designed with a purpose. That purpose is to change the negative perceptions of the Hip Hop culture. Why change perception? In this world, perception is reality. It shapes our minds, thoughts and reactions. Therefore, altering perception ultimately changes reality.

Hip Hop culture and music are mutli-faceted, evolving, complex and sometimes even contradictory. But Hip Hop is a valuable art and it is truth for hundreds of thousands of women, men, and children. Hip Hop is a vehicle for critical pedagogy to occur and it is estimated that over 200 classes on Hip Hop are being offered each year at colleges and universities throughout the United States and beyond.

Social Justice Education works towards a society that includes full and equal participation for all groups and uses an institutional, cultural, and individual lens to discuss historical and contemporary manifestations of oppression. Hip Hop acts as a public and global sounding board for artists and supporters to question universal attitudes about race, class and gender representations.
The symbiotic relationship between social justice and Hip Hop reinforces BIOHH’s dedication to building alliances with college activists and multicultural centers, which will help ensure an ongoing discourse where multiple experiences and intelligences are valued and people can come to understand the transformative power of Hip Hop to bring about positive change.

ABOUT BIOHH – The BIOHH brand was born in November of 2002. The purpose of the company is to clothe the globe with gear that makes sense and provokes dialogue to alter perceptions of Hip Hop. The company consists of five professional men who have a love of the culture and the art form of Hip Hop. In the later days, BIOHH will manufacture the complete collections for both men and women however, today, the t-shirts and hats are what the line consists of. Please visit us online at www.biohh.com or call Marcus Manning at 612-250-5747.

Marcus S. Manning
CEO and Founder
612-250-5747
www.blameitonhiphop.com