That time I interviewed a civil rights leader and anti-rap activist

I was 20 years old–a college sophomore–and civil rights leader/anti-gangster rap activist C. Delores Tucker was coming to speak at my school. I wrote a piece for the school paper about her forthcoming visit: *Mary Washington College Bullet*, Fredericksburg, VA; February 15, 1996, page 5. Article transcript Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, Chair of the National Political Congress of Black Women and Chair of the Democratic National Black Caucus, will be speaking at Mary Washington College on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Red Room of the Campus Center about the “ramifications of gangsta rap.” Tucker participated with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 and is a member of the N.A.A.C.P. Board of Trustees. She is also the founding President of the Martin Luther King Association for Non-Violent Change and was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the National Women’s Advisory Committee. Tucker is also President of the Philadelphia Tribune, the oldest Black…