THE HIP HOP CAUCUS AND THE HIP-HOP SUMMIT ACTION NETWORK JOIN FORCES TO LAUNCH THE RESPECT MY VOTE! NATIONAL GET OUT THE VOTE (GOTV) BUS TOUR WITH HIP-HOP SUPERSTARS T.I. , JAY Z, RUSSELL SIMMONS, KEYSHIA COLE, T PAIN AND OTHERS DURING BET HIP-HOP AWARDS THIS WEEKEND IN ATLANTA

The Hip Hop Caucus (www.hiphopcaucus.org), today announced a partnership with the |Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (www.hsan.org) to jointly launch a national 18 city RESPECT MY VOTE! Get Out The Vote Bus Tour, urging potential first time voters and all voters to Get Out The Vote on Election Day. The GOTV Bus Tour of key battleground states will launch on Friday, October 17 at 4pm EST at the Atlanta Hip-Hop Summit on Financial Empowerment taking place at Clark Atlanta University’s Cornelius L. Henderson Student Center at 223 James P. Brawley Drive, S.W., during the BET Hip Hop Awards this weekend. Participating in the launch weekend will be hip-hop stars T.I., Russell Simmons, Keyshia Cole, Yung Joc, BET “106 & Park” host Rocsi, Gorilla Zoe and more.

Hip Hop Caucus Registers More Than 30K Voters During Nationwide “One Vote” Registration Drive

Washington, D.C (October 3) – The Hip Hop Caucus’ – Respect My Vote! Campaign (www.hiphopcaucus.org), along with Radio One, Inc. (www.radio-one.com) and the Hip Hop Summit Action Network, registered more than 30,000 voters during its national “One Vote Day” voter registration drive on September 30th.

Thousands of citizens in sixteen cities across the country participated in events aimed at mass voter registration. Radio One stations broadcasted live from central locations in each of the participating cities urging unregistered voters to attend their local registration site to register onsite. Artists such as Nelly and Raheem DeVaughn helped draw large crowds to registration stations, allowing Hip Hop Caucus volunteers to register an average of 1,200 voters within each of the different markets.