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The Boston Hip-Hop Summit is working with local youth voter registration organization, Dunk The Vote, as well as the NAACP, the Urban League and others in reaching out to young people between 18 and 35 and encouraging them to register to vote in preparation to attend the Summit. Corporate sponsors of the Boston Hip-Hop Summit Event will be PlayStation(R)2 and Anheuser-Busch, Inc. PlayStation 2 launched the first hip-hop poll at the Ohio Hip-Hop Summit on June 3, 2004. Called "PlayStation 2 Pulse," the purpose of the poll is to identify issues of importance to potential voters 18-35 and how they feel about them. Results of the Boston Hip-Hop Summit PlayStation 2 Pulse poll will be released immediately following the Summit.

Local sponsor of the Boston Hip-Hop Summit is Radio One (WBOT-FM, Hot 97.7 Boston's Hottest Hip-Hop & R&B, and Classic Soul & R&B Wild 1090 AM Boston).

Founded in 2001 by Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) is dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth throughout the United States. HSAN is a non-profit, non-partisan national coalition of Hip-Hop artists, entertainment industry leaders, education advocates, civil rights proponents, and youth leaders united in the belief that Hip-Hop is an enormously influential agent for social change which must be responsibly and proactively utilized to fight the war on poverty and injustice.

For more information on the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network or registering to vote, visit http://www.hsan.org.

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