1. Lennox Yearwood has led or been involved in a number of high-profile campaigns to engage young voters, as well as working on human rights issues in the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina.
16 Facts About Lennox Yearwood
1. 2.
Lennox Yearwood was the student government president at both schools and was issued an honorary doctorate from Saint Paul University in May 2011.
3.
Lennox Yearwood served in the US Air Force Reserve as an officer and chaplain.
4.
Lennox Yearwood was a co-creator of the 2004 campaign "Vote or Die" with Sean Combs.
5.
Lennox Yearwood was the Political and Grassroots Director for Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Summit in 2003 and 2004, and functioned as Senior Consultant to Jay Z's "Voice Your Choice" campaign.
6.
Lennox Yearwood served as a Senior Consultant for P Diddy's Citizen Change, where he provided a 50-state strategy for engaging the hip hop generation in community-building dialogues.
7.
Lennox Yearwood was arrested with thirteen other protesters in the Hart Senate Office Building.
8.
Lennox Yearwood organized "Shut It Down," a hip hop concert at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, calling for the end of torture at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp and for the camp's closure.
9.
Lennox Yearwood is the president and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus, founded September 11,2004, on the premise that the hip hop generation is uniquely qualified to address human-rights for the 21st century.
10.
Lennox Yearwood was arrested by Capitol Hill police outside of a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on September 10,2007, and charged with disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer.
11.
Kimberly Schneider, spokeswoman for the Capitol Police, Lennox Yearwood was stopped from entering the room after allegedly attempting to cut in front of people waiting to get in.
12.
Lennox Yearwood was treated at George Washington University Hospital "for injuries to his ankle" according to Liz Havstad, a spokeswoman for the Hip Hop Caucus.
13.
Lennox Yearwood is known for his activist work as the National Director of the Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign, in which he organized a coalition of national and grassroots organizations to advocate for the rights of Hurricane Katrina survivors.
14.
Lennox Yearwood led the first march in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in November 2005, to protest the racial profiling of survivors in the days after the storm.
15.
Lennox Yearwood was featured in a documentary titled "Hip Hop Rev" produced by Discovery Communications.
16.
Lennox Yearwood has appeared on CNN, BET Tonight, Al Jazeera, PBS, Fox, MTV, BBC, C-SPAN, and Hardball with Chris Mathews, and has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times and Vibe.