Madison, Wis., will mark the one-year anniversary of hip-hop artist John “Vietnam” Nguyen, a University of Wisconsin student who drowned in an area lake last year. At the time of his death, Nguyen was attending school on scholarship through the First Wave program, which centered on the spoken word and hip-hop culture.
Read the full story by Jack Cullen from the Wisconsin State Journal.
John “Vietnam” Nguyen performs spoken word in his hometown of Chicago in the fall of 2011. Nguyen was a First Wave scholar at UW-Madison and spoke at workshops throughout the country about social justice and civic engagement.
