Nelson George

Nelson George is an award-winning author, filmmaker, television producer, and critic with a passion for telling stories of African American culture. George is the author of several groundbreaking histories of African American music, including Where Did Our Love Go?, Hip Hop America, and The Hippest Trip in America. As a filmmaker, he was a producer on the Emmy Award–winning The Chris Rock Show and executive producer of the highly rated American Gangster crime series. He directed Queen Latifah to a Golden Globe in the HBO film Life Support, which he also cowrote, and was a writer/producer on The Get Down. Most of his creative work was made while living in Fort Greene / Clinton Hill.