THE THANK GOD FOR HIP-HOP FILM FESTIVAL & ACTION CONFERENCE runs through Jan. 15 at Kennedy King College, 6800 S. Wentworth Ave. The festival is a production of the Chicago Local Organizing Committee of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention.
Featuring “Birth of a Nation,” hip-hop classics “Wild Style” and “Krush Groove,” Mark Harris’ standup comedy film “Barber Shop Jokes Live in Chicago,” Parris Reaves’ urban drama “When Thugs Cry.”
Also Carl Seaton’s HIV drama “One Week,” “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” “10,000 Black Men Named George,” and the new doc “White Boys Can’t Rap,” a more films, panels and seminars. See www.chiloc.com.
