Popular rapper/actor Ice-T will speak at Teachers College at Columbia University, one of the United States' leading graduate schools.
 

The rapper will be featured during a two-day gathering called "Teach, Think, Play:  Popular Culture in the classroom."  According to organizers, the conference is designed to explore challenges and power of integrating pop culture into the classroom curricula.  Other speakers include Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer prize-winning comic book artist of Maus, who also created the Garbage Pail kids trading cards.  Spiegelman's wife Francoise Mouly, poet Taylor Mali, Danny Simmons, Popmaster Fabel, mental floss magazine founder Will Pearson and others are also expected to attend.

 

The conference takes place at Teachers College, Columbia University, on Sat. March 24 from 8:15 am-7pm and Sunday, March 25, from 8:15am-4pm.  

 

This article appeared in the March 20, 2007 edition of the All Hip Hop.com. http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=6832